Kidnapped (1971) on Netflix
David Balfour comes to claim his inheritance at the House of Shaws from his uncle Ebenezer, who has him kidnapped and sold into slavery. Aboard ship he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck.
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Plot summary
The Duke of Cumberland's troops put down the Jacobite Rebellion in the wake of the Battle of Culloden. David Balfour, reaching adulthood, travels to the House of Shaws to claim the house and land held for him by his father's brother, Ebenezer Balfour. Ebenezer first tries to murder the young man, then hands him to Captain Hoseason, who has a trading venture in the West Indies. David is to be sold into slavery in the Carolinas. Alan Breck, escaping the defeat at Culloden, is taken aboard after Hoseason's ship runs down his boat in the fog. He asks passage to France; refused, he offers 60 guineas to be put ashore on Loch Linnhe.
Cast
- Roger Boothas Duke of Cumberland
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kidnapped (1971)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Caine later said he "never got paid for" the film: "They made it when they didn't have the money to make it. I got a small percentage just so they would be able to release it... It was an absolute and utter disaster from beginning to end."
- The filmmakers realized the film would be too expensive for television and told NBC, which pulled out; the project was refinanced with American International Pictures putting up NBC's share, which made Kidnapped Omnibus' first purely theatrical film.
- The original title was David and Catriona, because Delbert Mann says they wanted to focus more on those characters than Alan Breck, though they also wanted to give Breck "more guts and more balls" and wrote in scenes of premeditated murder that the censor made them cut.
- Mann says a number of actors had to be looped, their dialogue re-recorded, because American audiences would not understand the thick Scottish accents.
