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Kidnapped (2005 miniseries)

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Genre
  
Drama

Directed by
  
Brendan Maher

Created by
  
Robert Louis Stevenson

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

Written by
  
Bev Doyle Richard Kurti

Starring
  
Iain Glen James Anthony Pearson Adrian Dunbar Emily Barclay

Kidnapped is a two-part BBC television adaptation of the 1893 novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. The show is directed by Brendan Maher and stars James Anthony Pearson as Davie Balfour and Iain Glen as Alan Breck.

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Production

On 1 December 2004, it was announced that the BBC had commissioned Kidnapped.

Plot

Among the plot deviations from novel to movie:

  • The movie added a love interest for Davie in Catriona, the daughter of James of the Glen. This plot element is from Stevenson's sequel novel, Catriona.
  • In the novel Kidnapped, Breck and James of the Glen were never arrested by the British, but the movie showed James of the Glen being falsely arrested with the threat of being hanged, to force Breck to give himself up.
  • The movie added the Long Mile Gang, expert trackers, to track Davie and Breck across Scotland, but the novel only had British troops.

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    Kidnapped (2005 miniseries) Wikipedia
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