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

Hunted in Holland
Directed by	Derek Williams
Screenplay by	Ian Dalrymple Derek Williams
Produced by	Ian Dalrymple
Starring	Sean Scully Jacques Verbrugge Sandra Spurr
Cinematography	Geoffrey Gurrin
Edited by	Ernest Hosler
Music by	Muir Mathieson
Production company	Children's Film Foundation
Distributed by	Wessex Film Productions Ltd.
Release dates	1961 (Great Britain)
Running time	60 min.
Country	Great Britain
Languages	English Dutch

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 fishes 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.

Cast

• Sean Scully - Tim
• Walter Randall - The guide
• Thom Kelling - van Helder
• Jacques Verbrugge - Piet van Helder
• Sandra Spurr - Aanike van Helder
• Riek Schagen - Mrs. van Helder
• Jean Lemaire - Grandpa
• John Soer - Man in blue
• Paul Ostra - Diamond cutter
• Sacco van der Made - Police superintendent
• Gerard Doting - Dutch thug
• Frans Kokshoorn - Dutch thug
• K. Brouwer - Dutch thug
• John Rowden - 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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