Plot

This one introduces a quartet of tykes: Freddie, Pat, Ali, and Kim - gathered around a rabbit hutch. Deeming the pet's home to be unsuitable, they decide to make a better one by whatever means necessary. Unfortunately they break a pricey saw in the process, so it's off to the city streets to round up enough cash to buy a replacement. Their first attempts only aggravate the adults around them when they try to pull a Tom Sawyer whitewash on a barge and take up vehicle- and dog-washing services, leading to complications in which they mistakenly wind up taking one of their brass beds across town to sell to a salvage merchant.
Basically a sunny kids' adventure with only the faintest trace of a serious message (take responsibility for yourself and your possessions, basically), "The Salvage Gang" works best today as a snapshot of London in between the war era and its reinvention as ground zero for a pop culture revolution in the 60's. Television was creeping in, car models were changing, and though everyone still looked clean cut, fashions were just beginning to morph again. There's also the surprisingly nonchalant and respectful presence of Ali, something you'd never see in an American film of the time.

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