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De Guitenstreken van Jopie Slim en Dickie Bigmans (1939)

De Guitenstreken van Jopie Slim en Dickie Bigmans poster
Directed by
Jan van Dommelen
Genre
children's film
Country
Netherlands

How it feels

Two young boys get into a series of silly misadventures. It is a Dutch film from 1939 based on a British comic strip.

playfullightheartedwhimsicalold-fashionedgentlecharmingsimplenostalgic

What happens

De Guitenstreken van Jopie Slim en Dickie Bigmans (The Jolly Pranks of Jopie Slim and Dickie Bigmans) is a 1939 Dutch children's film based a popular British comic strip, Billy Bimbo and Peter Porker by Harry Folkard, which ran in The London Evening News but became far more popular in the Netherlands under its translation Jopie Slim en Dickie Bigmans. The picture was an amateur movie made for youth halls and children's matinées. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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