Three children are locked in a store by accident. They help catch a gang who break into the store the same day in order to get to the bank next door.
Acting
Actual children playing actual children—chaotic, natural, unpolished gold.
Direction
Truman keeps 57 minutes tight as a drum, zero fat.
Production
1964 British department store aesthetic: a time capsule in beige and wood.
Director
Michael Truman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Darryl Read later became a punk musician; his acting career peaked at outsmarting fictional criminals at age twelve.
This 1964 Children's Film Foundation production was made cheap and fast for Saturday morning cinema clubs—British millennial parents grew up on this exact chaotic energy.
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