The Piper's Tune

I caught this one on Talking Pictures TV as part of their new season of Children's Film Foundation features for 2025. It's a late black and white story about a group of kids thwarting an unruly assortment of French troops during the Napoleonic War. At first I was wondering what on earth the French were doing in Scotland before I realised that the presence of surnames like Martinez meant that this is supposed to be set in northern Spain and merely filmed in Scotland. Neither Spanish nor French speak in accents which makes for some confusion. There's a little back and forth and outwitting adults on the part of the kids, but generally this is quite subdued given the standards of the genre and only the presence of twins gives it any originality.