| Distributor:
Roadshow Home Entertainment
Certificate:
PG | Region: 4 | 158 minutes
Extras:
Yes
cast
Iain Glen, Paul McGann, James Pearson, Kirstin Smith, Adrian Dunbar
Back in the sixties and seventies one of the TV highlights of the week would be the adventure serials that popped up for the family audience early Sunday evenings, as period drama became more expensive to make these were gradually all but phased out in the 1990's so what great fun it was to sit down and watch the superlative action adventure of Kidnapped, very much in the vein of the classic series of yesteryear ad full of derring do and swashing of buckles.
Based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and set in a politically divided Scotland during the 1750's, Kidnapped stars newcomer James Anthony Pearson as young Davie Balfour who is orphaned when his father Alexander (Adrian Dunbar) is crushed by a tree. Just before he dies, Alexander gives him a dagger and tells him that he must claim his rightful inheritance of a great landed estate from an uncle he never even knew he had. After a perilous journey, Davie arrives and introduces himself to his reclusive and eccentric Uncle Ebenezer (also played by Dunbar). At first he seems friendly enough but as soon as Davie mentions his inheritance, Ebenezer tries to send him to his death. When that fails, he has Davie kidnapped and taken away on his ship headed for slavery in the New World.
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