Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jonny Lee Miller | ... | Macleane | |
Iain Robertson | ... | Highwayman Rob | |
Robert Carlyle | ... | Plunkett | |
Ken Stott | ... | Chance | |
Liv Tyler | ... | Lady Rebecca Gibson | |
Stephen Walters | ... | Dennis | |
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James Thornton | ... | Catchpole |
Terence Rigby | ... | Harrison | |
Christian Camargo | ... | Lord Pelham | |
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Karel Polisenský | ... | Newgate Priest |
Neve McIntosh | ... | Liz | |
Matt Lucas | ... | Sir Oswald | |
David Walliams | ... | Viscount Bilston | |
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David Foxxe | ... | Lord Ketch |
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Jake Gavin | ... | Newgate Gent |
Will Plunkett (Robert Carlyle) and Captain James Macleane (Jonny Lee Miller), two men from different ends of the social spectrum in eighteenth century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's (Sir Michael Gambon's) coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson (Liv Tyler). Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance (Ken Stott), who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both: The Gentlemen Highwaymen and Rebecca, who, needless to say, don't want to get any closer to him. But Plunkett still has a thing to sort out with Chance, and his impulsiveness gets all of them in a little trouble. Written by Julian Reischl <julianreischl@mac.com>
I've been waiting since last October to see this film! (it was supposed to come out October '98) and now I've finally seen it I am not disappointed. Bloody marvellous! OK it was a tad slow in the beginning, but once it got going it's a very exciting nail-biting tense Robert Carlyle is so different from either Gaz in 'The Full Monty' and Begbie in 'Trainspotting' ) that it's hard to recognise him! And Johnny Lee Miller, no longer with his Sick Boy from 'Trainspotting' blond hair, plays his dashing gentlemen highway man with the right about of humour and sensitivity that it is easy to see why Liv Tylers Rebecca falls for him. A great film. As Hades in Disney's 'Hercules' would say: "Two thumbs way way up!!"