Hunted in Holland

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Hunted in Holland
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Opening titles
Directed byDerek Williams
Screenplay by Ian Dalrymple
Derek Williams
Produced byIan Dalrymple
Starring Sean Scully
Jacques Verbrugge
Sandra Spurr
Cinematography Geoffrey Gurrin
Edited by Ernest Hosler
Music by Muir Mathieson
Production
company
Distributed byWessex Film Productions Ltd.
Release date
Running time
60 min.
CountryGreat Britain
LanguagesEnglish
Dutch

Hunted in Holland is a 1961 British children's film/crime film directed by Derek Williams and starring Sean Scully, Jacques Verbrugge and Sandra Spurr. [1] The script was written by Ian Dalrymple and Williams. It was produced by the Children's Film Foundation and shot in Eastmancolor.

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Plot

Tim visits his penfriend Piet van Helder in Holland. Piet has a kid sister named Aanike. Tim throws away a raw herring, which lands in the megaphone of a man guiding British tourists in a channel boat. Confused, he drops his walking stick into the water. When the children later fish it up, they discover a valuable diamond bracelet hidden inside. The guide actually belongs to a gang of diamond thieves. Tim conceals the bracelet inside a hollow cheese.

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Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This fast-moving detective adventure should delight children up to the age at which backgrounds crammed with Dutchmen gaping at the camera crew becomes an illusion-shattering distraction. The barge's entry into Rotterdam is excitingly shot and edited, yet not much sophistication will be needed to pick holes in the story elsewhere – e.g., would a barrage of tomatoes defeat a gang who, a scene later, are shown to carry a gun? The boys have nicely contrasted characters, but the adults are grotesques overacted for laughs. The Dutch settings photograph prettily; however in this as in many other respects the film compares unfavourably with the polish of a recent American work for children with Low Countries locations, A Dog of Flanders ." [2]

Homage

Hunted in Holland pays homage to Louis Lumière's 1895 silent film L'Arroseur Arrosé ,[ citation needed ] in which a boy steps on the hose that a gardener is using to water his plants, cutting off the water flow. When the gardener tilts the nozzle up to inspect it, the boy releases the hose, causing the water to spray him. In this film Aanike van Helder is the scallywag.

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References

  1. ↑ "Hunted in Holland". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  2. ↑ "Hunted in Holland". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 28 (324): 82. 1 January 1961 – via ProQuest.
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