The wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.The wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.The wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.
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- Lawrence Edward Watkin
- Walter Scott(uncredited)
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- TriviaThis was the final Walt Disney Studios production released through RKO Radio Pictures.
- GoofsHamish Macpherson compares the Marquis of Montrose unfavourably with his ancestors, eliding his grandfather, James Graham, the first Marquis ("the great Montrose") with John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee ("the bonnie Dundee") as if they were the same person. They were, in fact, only distantly related and overlapped in date only briefly: Montrose lived 1612-1650, Dundee 1648-89. It is unclear whether this is an error of the script or whether it is meant to indicate that Hamish's reminiscences are unreliable and overblown.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Bowery to Bagdad (1954)
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A bit Muddy looking and hard to find
This film is a mixed bag. It has some excellent aspects, but it does tend to drag a bit, and it is a muddle of accents. It is set in the highlands of Scotland during a very complicated time, and does not do a very good job of explaining this complicated political situation. While it probably looked vibrant when it was first put out, today it looks very muddy and boring, like they were filming at the end of February or the beginning of November. There are two parts which are quite funny, the first is when Rob is trying to ask for someone's hand in marriage and his future father-in-law is loudly playing with the reed of a bagpipe. The second is that the new German King of England George the first needed a translator and spoke in a very thick German accent, and spoke in German to highlanders who happened to understand German. It's often compared to the last film about Rob Roy they made, in the early 90s, while I have seen that film, I do not remember it very well, so I can't really compare the two. It seems to me an American imagining of the story of Scotland, and I think that most films about Scotland are American imaginings of Scottish history that they idealize. I think that's because America is a country of immigrants and while there is a civic identity of America, there isn't an ethnic American identity, so often the descendants of these immigrants tend to latch on to a sort of mythic past. It's the same thing in Canada, where I grew up, or at least during the time when I grew up. People would identify as Scottish or Highlanders, but never as the English, although everyone I grew up with was mostly a mixture of these ethnicities.
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- Der königliche Rebell
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- $1,800,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
- 1.37 : 1
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