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Kidnapped (1917 film)

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Genre
  
Adventure

Language
  
Silent

Director
  
Alan Crosland

Cast
  
Raymond McKee

Country
  
United States

Writer
  
Robert Louis Stevenson
,
Charles Sumner Williams

Release date
  
May 7, 1917 (1917-05-07)

Genres
  
Adventure Film, Silent film

Similar movies
  
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934), Viennese Nights (1930), The Beloved Rogue (1927), Big Boy (1930), The Personality Kid (1934)

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Kidnapped is a 1917 silent film based on the novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, directed by Alan Crosland at Edison Studios. The film only included selected parts of the story, and reinforced the then developing romanticisation of the Scottish Highlands.

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Previously thought lost, a copy of the film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.

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Cast

  • Raymond McKee - David Balfour
  • Joseph Burke - Ebenezer Balfour
  • Ray Hallor - Ransome
  • William Wadsworth - Angus Ban Keillor
  • Robert Cain - Alan Breck
  • Walter Craven - Riach
  • John Nicholson - Shuan
  • Franklyn Hanna - Captain Hoseason (*Franklin Farnum)
  • Samuel N. Niblack - Cluny McPherson (*as Samuel Niblack)
  • Horace Haine - Colin Campbell (*as Horace Hane)
  • James Levering - Minister

    • References

    Kidnapped (1917 film) Wikipedia
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    Kidnapped (1917 film) IMDb