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The Cat Gang is a group of precocious British kids. They have a habit of hanging around a grown-up customs official who wishes that they'd beat it. But the Gang comes in handy when a smuggling gang arrives on the scene.
The Cat Gang
1959 Directed by Darrell Catling
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04 Jan 1959
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Darrel Catling’s family comedy-drama is the story of three children and their adventures while on the track of a gang of smugglers. Starring Francesca Annis, John Pike, Jeremy Bulloch, John Gabriel and John Stacy.
The story concerns The Cat Gang, a gang of English kids who like to spend time with the local harbour even though the Customs Officers wish they'd wouldn’t. Then one day the group spots somebody behaving very shadily and find a band of smugglers.
Francesca Annis as Sylvia, John Pike as John and Jeremy Bulloch as Bill all give good performances in their respective parts as the three children known as The Cat Gang.
Elsewhere, there are fine performances to be had from John Gabriel and…
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What do you know? A group of kids stumble across a criminal enterprise and help bring them to justice (spoiler).
In this case, it's a smuggling operation who are labelled by the kids because of what seems to be the leader's cat fetish.
Not one of those films where the claims made by the children are dismissed by the authorities, instead they're immediately accepted, and what's more they get to go along and help apprehend them.
Breakout stars: Lady Jessica Atreides and Boba Fett.
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13-year olds Francesca Annis and Jeremy Bulloch make their first screen appearances in this lively CFF entry, in which all the children are awfully posh and their village is picturesque. When the lovely harbour proves a haven for smugglers, the teenage gang get together to save the day.
A fun entry in this series of films which has more of a hint of the Famous Five about it, and some beautiful location filming, and if the young leads are a bit shouty, it didn't do them any harm in the long run.