In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Peter Finch | ... | Alan Breck Stewart | |
| James MacArthur | ... | David Balfour | |
| Bernard Lee | ... | Captain Hoseason | |
| John Laurie | ... | Ebenezer Balfour | |
| Niall MacGinnis | ... | Mr. Shuan | |
| Finlay Currie | ... | Cluny MacPherson | |
| Miles Malleson | ... | Mr. Rankeillor | |
| Duncan Macrae | ... | The Highlander | |
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Andrew Cruickshank | ... | Colin Campbell |
| Peter O'Toole | ... | Robin MacGregor | |
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Alex Mackenzie | ... | The Ferryman |
| Oliver Johnston | ... | Mr. Campbell | |
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Norman MacOwan | ... | Tinker |
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Eileen Way | ... | Jennet Clouston |
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Jack Stewart | ... | Landlord |
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Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats. Written by Cleo <frede005@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Plot Keywords:
scottish highlands | homosexual subtext | murder | inheritance | held at sword point |Taglines:
SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE! FLASHING SWORDS AND RAGING SEAS...as soldiers of fortune fight for their lives! See more »Parents Guide:
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24 February 1960 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped See more »Company Credits
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Ebenezer Balfour: Has nobody ever told you that candles cost money?
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Although they shared the same first and last names, the director Robert Stevenson was not related to Robert Louis Stevenson on whose 1886 novel "Kidnapped" this film was based. See more »Goofs
When David and Alan are reunited, Alan swears an oath to being innocent. In a brief close-up his beard changes. See more »Quotes
David Balfour: You leave me no candle?Ebenezer Balfour: Has nobody ever told you that candles cost money?
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This comes across as a rather cheaply made movie, minimal production values, and that's a shame, because it has a very fine script delivered by very fine actors, chief among them Peter Finch, who delivers Alan Breck Stewart's lines like the Shakespearean actor he was, rolling those r's and turning the prose into poetry. Yes, the ships at sea look like they're in a bathtub, it's true, and the backgrounds, which could have been beautiful, are not, because the color is not that good.
But the script is first rate, and so is the acting, and that wins the day.
This is a story of male bonding, of a boy who becomes a man by going through trials under the supervision of a man. The sort of thing Kipling did so well a decade later in Captains Courageous - turned into another first-rate movie, if a less faithful one, with Spencer Tracy and Freddie Bartholomew. This is something of the same thing, except that, rather than riding the high seas, the duo wander through the dangers of the Scottish Highlands.
It would have benefited from a better score, but still, I strongly recommend it. It is infinitely better than the sad travesty produced for no discernible reason by Masterpiece Theater.