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Kidnapped (1971)

Kidnapped poster
Directed by
Delbert Mann
Genre
drama film, adventure film, children's film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
U
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 41 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man is kidnapped and forced onto a ship. He escapes and joins a Scottish rebel on a journey through the highlands.

swashbucklingold-fashionedbriskly-pacedspiriteddramaticearnestwhimsicalhistoric

What happens

Kidnapped is a 1971 British adventure film, directed by Delbert Mann and starring Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins and Donald Pleasence, as well as a number of well-known British character actors. The film is based on the 1886 novel Kidnapped and the first half of the 1893 sequel Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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