The Dog and the Diamonds is a 1953 British family drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Kathleen Harrison, George Coulouris, and Geoffrey Sumner.

A group of children are forbidden to keep pets in their accommodation, so decide to open their own zoo in the gardens of a nearby empty house.

Kathleen Harrison plays the owner of a pet-shop in her best Huggett vein; George Coulouris is the ill-tempered caretaker, allowed one moment of tenderness (towards a baby in a pram) but otherwise symbolising the tyrannies of an unbending adult authority.

The three crooks are inoffensive villains, fulfilling the familiar but difficult task of supplying dramatic tension without making villainy frightening or crime attractive.

The picture, which is full of action and has many good comedy scenes, teaches by inference the love of animals and a sense of civic responsibility.