Kidnapped (1917 film)
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| Directed by | Alan Crosland |
| Written by | Robert Louis Stevenson (novel) Charles Sumner Williams (scenario) |
| Starring | Raymond McKee Joseph Burke Ray Hallor |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent |
Kidnapped is a 1917 American silent adventure film directed by Alan Crosland for Edison Studios. It was based on the 1886 novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film only included selected parts of the story, and reinforced the then-developing romanticisation of the Scottish Highlands.[1][2]
Previously thought lost, a copy of the film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.[3]
Cast
- Raymond McKee as David Balfour
- Joseph Burke as Ebenezer Balfour
- Ray Hallor as Ransome
- William Wadsworth as Angus Ban Keillor
- Robert Cain as Alan Breck
- Walter Craven as Riach
- John Nicholson as Shuan
- Franklyn Hanna as Captain Hoseason (*Franklin Farnum)
- Samuel N. Niblack as Cluny McPherson (*as Samuel Niblack)
- Horace Haine as Colin Campbell (*as Horace Hane)
- James Levering as Minister
References
- ^ Brown, Ian (2007). The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918). Edinburgh University Press. p. 54. ISBN 9780748624829.
- ^ MacDonald, Fiona (2007). Kidnapped. Salariya Publishers. p. 46. ISBN 9781904642046.
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Film Survival Catalog:Kidnapped
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- 1917 films
- American silent feature films
- American films
- American black-and-white films
- Films based on Kidnapped (novel)
- Films directed by Alan Crosland
- 1910s rediscovered films
- Films set in Scotland
- 1910s historical drama films
- American historical drama films
- 1917 drama films
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