Kidnapped
About Kidnapped
In Scotland in 1751, David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship and meets the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart. The two escape into the Highlands with redcoats behind them. Raymond McKee plays David, Robert Cain plays Alan, and Joseph Burke plays Ebenezer Balfour.
Cast & crew
More about Kidnapped
Alan Crosland directed for Edison Studios. Wikipedia says the film uses only selected parts of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel. Wikidata sets the story in Scotland and lists no running time.
Themes
Background
The story is set in 1751 during the aftermath of the Jacobite rising, as Stevenson wrote it.
Preservation
Wikipedia says a print is in the Library of Congress and that a DVD appeared in 2017, prepared with the library and paid for in part by crowdfunding.
Notes
- Ray Hallor plays Ransome, William Wadsworth plays Angus Ban Keillor, and Walter Craven plays Riach.
- The Wikipedia cast also lists John Nicholson as Shuan, Franklyn Hanna as Captain Hoseason, and Samuel N. Niblack as Cluny McPherson.
- Wikipedia says the picture reinforced a romantic picture of the Scottish Highlands then taking shape.
- A copy once thought lost is in the Library of Congress, and a DVD was issued in 2017 with that library's help and with crowdfunding.
Scenes
- David and Alan leave the ship and head into the Highlands ahead of the redcoats.
Influenced by
- Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped (1886)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Kidnapped (1917).webm)
