Alan runs into his friend Ewan of Appin, who was just exposed as a Jacobite spy. A severe storm then causes a wreckage.Īlan and David return as castaways to the Scottish onshore. The criminal sea captain attempts to ambush Alan for his gold but David confounds these plans and helps Alan Breck to stand his ground. Alan Breck, who needs to leave for France in a foggy night, accidentally happens to end up on the same ship. The “Red Fox” relishes this humiliation of Englishman William Reid.ĭavid becomes Captain Forbes' new cabin boy, for the previous cabin boy has been murdered by the sailor Mr. He leaves a paper with a quote from A Counterblaste to Tobacco written by James I of England. Alan Breck, who therefore can literally smell the trap, steals a horse and escapes. They fail because William Reid smokes a pipe with strong tobacco. When David is trapped, William Reid and “the Red Fox” try to assassinate Alan Breck in the woods. David wakes up on a ship going to America, where he shall be sold as a slave. David survives, yet the next day Ebenezer has him kidnapped by a criminal sea captain. Ebenezer reluctantly invites him in, but later on tries to kill him by an arranged accident. The man who threatens to shoot him turns out to be his uncle Ebenezer ( Patrick Malahide). He also finds all of a sudden a gun directed at him. Alan decides the man cannot be trusted and eludes in order to continue his mission.ĭavid has meanwhile reached the “House of Shaws”. Alan Stuart asks him twice to swear his kin will be protected indeed but even so he merely receives a mute grin. 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. The "Red Fox" receives Alan Stuart with an abettor who holds the guest at gun point. But David is driven by wanderlust, and therefore resolves to go. 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. It is a letter of introduction addressing a Laird. Reverend Campbell tells him he was given a letter in charge by David's late father. Alan Stewart only grudgingly complies, because he regards the “Red Fox” as a traitor, for at the Battle of Culloden he had to fight against Loudon's Highlanders, a regiment of Highlanders led by Campbells.Īt about the same time David Balfour ( Brian McCardie) leaves the fictitious small village Essendean in the Scottish Lowlands. 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 George's factor, the "Red Fox" Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure ( Brendan Gleeson). They were Scots."Īlan Breck Stewart ( Armand Assante) returns to his home village, which is already menaced by the highland clearances.
Another voice-over tells they had sons who "were neither Highlanders nor Lowlanders. It ends when Stewart leaves Scotland forever "to have a distinguished career in the French Army", while Balfour stays and marries a lady from the Highlands. Alan Breck Stewart is characterised as a leading figure of Jacobitism who tried "to keep the flame alive". The adaptation starts by describing a divided Scotland which is populated by Highlanders and Lowlanders who are loyal to different kings. 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. The film was based on the 1886 novel Kidnapped by author Robert Louis Stevenson. Among the supporting actors are Michael Kitchen and Brian Blessed.
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Kidnapped is a 1995 TV adventure drama film directed by Ivan Passer and starring Armand Assante as Highlander Alan Breck and Brian McCardie as Lowlander David Balfour.
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