Kidnapped (1995 film)

Kidnapped A timeless tale of honor, bravery and adventure is a 1995 TV adventure film directed by Ivan Passer and starring Armand Assante as Highlander Alan Breck and Brian McCardie as Lowlander David Balfour. Among the supporting actors are Michael Kitchen and Brian Blessed. The film was based on the book titled Kidnapped by author Robert Louis Stevenson. Christopher Reeve had originally been cast as Breck prior to his spinal cord injury in a horse race which left him a quadriplegic on May 27, 1995.

Allan Breck Stewart Armand Assante returns to his home village, which is already menaced by the highland clearances. His foster father James Stewart of the Glen Brian McGrath issues the taxpayers money for the exiled House of Stuart to him and beseeches him to meet King Georges factor, the Red Fox Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure Brendan Gleeson. Allan Stewart only grudgingly complies, because he regards the Red Fox as a traitor, for at the Battle of Culloden he had to fight against Loudons Highlanders, a regiment of Highlanders led by Campbells. At about the same time David Balfour Brian McCardie leaves the fictitious small village Essendean in the Scottish Lowlands. Reverend Campbell tells him he was given a letter in charge by Davids late father. It is a letter of introduction addressing a Laird. The reverend informs him that his late mother never wanted him to go to the House of Shaws and asks him to stay in Essendean. But David is driven by wanderlust, and therefore resolves to go. The Red Fox receives Allan Stuart with an abettor who holds the guest at gun point. An English officer named William Reid Michael Kitchen and his soldiers are in waiting when the Red Fox offers to protect James Stewart of The Glen. Allan Stuart asks him twice to swear his kin will be protected indeed but even so he merely receives a mute grin. Allan decides the man cannot be trusted and eludes in order to continue his mission. David has meanwhile reached the House of Shaws. He also finds all of a sudden a gun directed at him. The man who threatens to shoot him turns out to be his uncle Ebenezer Patrick Malahide. Ebenezer reluctantly invites him in, but later on tries to kill him by an arranged accident. David survives, yet the next day Ebenezer has him kidnapped by a criminal sea captain. David wakes up on a ship going to America, where he shall be sold as a slave. When David is trapped, William Reid and the Red Fox try to assassinate Allan Breck in the woods. They fail because William

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