Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...
- 5.1
- 1990
- Released
- 1h 32m
Charlton Heston
James MacKenzie
Bruce Greenwood
Willem Hooft
Patricia Gage
Mrs. Mackenzie
Dan MacDonald
Tom Cameron
Leah Pinsent
Kirsten MacKenzieCharles Miller
Davy MackenzieLeo Wheatley
Harry MacKenzie
Richard Donat
Hans Hooft
Amos Crawley
Jan HooftReleased
en
- #canada
- #beach
- #baby
- #orphan
Reviews
I don't suppose it's very often that anyone would have to compare Charlton Heston with Scottish actor Duncan Macrae but this remake of the 1953 story gives us the chance - and to be honest, I preferred the original. The tale finds two young orphans traveling to Nova Scotia to be with their grandfather. He's a stern man who wants no truck with his Boer neighbours. The youngsters initially fall in w