Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...
Charlton Heston
as James MacKenzie
Bruce Greenwood
as Willem Hooft
Patricia Gage
as Mrs. Mackenzie
Dan MacDonald
as Tom Cameron
Leah Pinsent
as Kirsten MacKenzie
Charles Miller
as Davy Mackenzie
Leo Wheatley
as Harry MacKenzie
Richard Donat
as Hans Hooft
Amos Crawley
as Jan Hooft
