Underplayed Gems

Chasing the Deer (1994)

Chasing the Deer poster
Directed by
Graham Holloway
Genre
war film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 37m
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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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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