Michael Caine

Lawrence Douglas

Vivien Heilbron

Trevor Howard

Jack Hawkins

Donald Pleasence

Gordon Jackson

Freddie Jones

Jack Watson

Peter Jeffrey

Roger Booth

Geoffrey Whitehead

Andrew McCulloch

Claire Nielson

John Hughes

Terry Richards

Eric Woodburn

David Blagden

Russell Waters

Jack Lambert

Delbert Mann

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jack Pulman

Hugh Attwooll

Frederick H. Brogger

James Franciscus

Roy Budd

Paul Beeson

Peter Boita

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Kidnapped

Omnibus Productions

Omnibus-Biography Productions

United Kingdom

English

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It is actually a bit of a testament to Michael Caine's charisma, that I didn't give this one star. As a Scot, I ought to have hated it. Oddly enough, though, it's not awful. Sure, his accent is all over the place but somehow the thrust of the story is reasonably handled. It all starts with "David Balfour" (Lawrence Douglas) trekking to his uncle "Ebenezer" (Donald Pleasance) to tell him his father has passed away. The venal old gent has no intention of sharing his meagre fortune and soon "Davie" in underway across the sea under the guidance of "Capt. Hoseason" (Jack Hawkins). That ship hits a smaller one which introduces us to the Jacobite, tartan-clad, Caine ("Alan Breck Stewart") who is on the run from King George's red coats. After literally having to fight their way off the brig they have some adventures, get caught up in an high level assassination and end up with both trying to achieve their objectives against the odds. The production is pleasing to look like, and the score sets up some lovely Scottish location photography. The cast? Well, Hawkins looks like he has had way too much port; Trevor Howard is quite effective as the duplicitous Lord Advocate and the young Douglas does fine as the naive but decent young "Balfour". It is all about Michael Caine, though - and for all it's many flaws, there is no denying that the solid underpinning adventure story serves as a strong enough bedrock for this not to end up the laughable nonsense it could have been. Not a patch on the Disney version from 1959, but I didn't hate it...

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