After the first day of hop picking, Sam takes her with him to an antiques shop in Goudhurst where she sees a china dog just like her mother's.
They arrive during a hop wedding, when all are distracted, and the dog is stolen by two local children - the Reilly boys - untidy Artful Dodger style characters who disparagingly call the hop-pickers "hoppers".
"[8] The Radio Times rated it two out of five stars, writing, "In days of yore, the poor folk of South London flocked to Kent and went hop-picking...this exciting tale offers bullying, theft and a climactic lightning storm.
"[9] Filmink called it " a decent, brisk, efficient movie...No one seems to bat an eye as she [Miller] gets on a train and then goes to work – what was the labor market like in 1954 England?
"[10] In 2002, a copy of Adventure in the Hopfields was discovered in a rubbish bin in Chicago, United States, and subsequently purchased by film buff Barry Littlechild for $35.