Hunted in Holland

Hunted in Holland is a British children's film/crime film from 1961 directed by Derek Williams and starring Sean Scully, Jacques Verbrugge and . The script was written Ian Dalrymple and Williams. Hunted in Holland was shot in Eastmancolor.

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, who is guiding British tourists in a channel boat. Confused he drops his walking stick into the water. The children later fishes it up and they discover that a valuable diamond bracelet was hidden inside. The guide actually belongs to a gang of diamond thieves. Tim conceals the bracelet inside a hollow cheese.

Cast[]

• Sean Scully - Tim
• Walter Randall - The guide
• - van Helder
• Jacques Verbrugge - Piet van Helder
• - Aanike van Helder
• Riek Schagen - Mrs. van Helder
• Jean Lemaire - Grandpa
• - Man in blue
• - Diamond cutter
• Sacco van der Made - Police superintendent
• - Dutch thug
• Frans Kokshoorn - Dutch thug
• K. Brouwer - Dutch thug
• - London crook

Homage[]

Hunted in Holland pays homage to Louis Lumière's 1895 silent film L'Arroseur Arrosé, 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.

Sources[]

• Hunted in Holland (1960) at BFI
• Hunted in Holland (1961) at The Internet Movie Database

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