Chasing the Deer (1994)

Directed by

Graham Holloway

Genre

war film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film depicts the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion where Bonnie Prince Charlie tried to claim the British throne. It follows the Scottish Jacobites as they are hunted like deer by British forces.

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What happens

Chasing the Deer (later re-titled Culloden 1746) is a 1994 British war film directed by Graham Holloway and starring Brian Blessed, Lewis Rae, Iain Cuthbertson, Fish and Mathew Zajac. It depicts the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, in which Bonnie Prince Charlie landed in Scotland, trying to claim the British throne. The title metaphorically alludes to the Jacobites as the quarry in a deer hunt. The phrase "a-chasing the deer" appears in the refrain of the romantic Scottish poem by Robert Burns, My Heart's in the Highlands (1789). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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