The Master of Ballantrae (film)

The Master of Ballantrae is a 1953 British Technicolor adventure film starring Errol Flynn and Roger Livesey. It is a loose and highly truncated adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel of the same title. In eighteenth century Scotland, two sons of a laird clash over the family estate and a lady.

At the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland in 1745, Jamie Durie Errol Flynn, his younger brother Henry Anthony Steel and their father Lord Durrisdeer Felix Aylmer receive news of the Jacobite rising. Their retainer, MacKellar Mervyn Johns, recommends that one brother join the uprising while the other remains loyal to King George II, so that whichever side wins, the familys status and estate will be preserved. Both brothers want to go. Jamie insists on tossing a coin for the privilege and wins, despite the opposition of his fiance, Lady Alison Beatrice Campbell.The rising is crushed at the Battle of Culloden. Evading British soldiers, Jamie falls in with an Irish adventurer, Colonel Francis Burke Roger Livesey. They return secretly to Durrisdeer to obtain money for passage to France. ........

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