The Salvage Gang is a 1958 British children's adventure comedy film directed by John Krish and starring Ali Allen, Amanda Coxell and Frazer Hines.
The younger children find an iron bedframe in the street and sell it to a scrap merchant, but it turns out that the bed was Freddie's, and was being moved to his new house.
"[2] The Manchester Guardian called the fim "a brisk, episodic, adventurous tale about a group of children who are, determined to earn an honest penny and find it very difficult to do so.
"[5] In Sight and Sound Nick Pinkerton wrote: "John Krish's The Salvage Gang, shot with his customary monochrome elegance and visual reflectiveness, winds dreamily across late-50s London as a reassuringly scruffy (even mildly multicultural) quartet chase odd jobs and a mislaid bedstead from Islington to Tower Bridge and back.
Krish coaxes engaging if not naturalistic – performances from his young cast (CFF chief Mary Field preferred stage-school children with RP accents, for their supposed vocal clarity).