The Kidnappers

The Little Kidnappers
American poster
Directed byPhilip Leacock
Written byNeil Paterson
Produced bySergei Nolbandov
Leslie Parkyn
StarringDuncan Macrae
Jon Whiteley
Vincent Winter
CinematographyEric Cross
Edited byJohn Trumper
Music byBruce Montgomery
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • 17 December 1953 (1953-12-17)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Kidnappers (US: The Little Kidnappers) is a 1953 British film, directed by Philip Leacock and written by Neil Paterson.

The movie was financed by the Rank Organisation. According to producer Frank Godwin, J. Arthur Rank, chairman of Rank, "rarely expressed any feelings about individual films, but there was one film that he absolutely loved, The Kidnappers." He said John Davis, managing director of Rank, "would always refer to it as 'your movie, Arthur'."

"It was certainly the film I enjoyed the most," said director Leacock.

The Little Kidnappers has been called the best movie from Group Film Productions, Rank's main production arm in the 1950s.