Hide and Seek is a 1972 British children's drama film directed by David Eady starring Peter Newby, Gary Kemp, Robin Askwith, Liz Fraser, Terence Morgan and David Lodge.

the Deptford Dodger, is a runaway from Borstal eager to join his dad, who has told him in a letter that he is leaving England.

However, when Keith encounters two local children, he discovers that his father is actually planning a bank heist.

Despite these contradictions – in part, perhaps, because of them – Hide and Seek emerges as a highly entertaining and well made adventure story for younger children.

But one can't help wondering whether Deptford's teenage population will find a shade Utopian its image of a friendly local constabulary which apparently knows every inhabitant by name.