Highlanders & Hanoverians - Movies/Films etc on jacobite history?

Reply #15 - 06/13/05 at 01:50:20

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There was a version of "Kidnapped" with Michael Caine, and who can forget the Flynn version of "Master of Balantrae"

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Reply #16 - 06/13/05 at 04:19:02

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There was a version of "Kidnapped" with Michael Caine, and who can forget the Flynn version of "Master of Balantrae"

I seem to recall a version of "Kidnapped" with Michael York (or was it Richard Thomas?), but I'm really hazy on the details -- was this the same one with Michael Caine (I'm not familiar with that one).

Oh, and just now I recall that a year or two ago the Hallmark/Family channel aired a 1995 remake as well, with Armand Assante playing the Allen Breck Stuart <sp.> character.

Thanks for jogging my memory Wink

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Reply #17 - 06/15/05 at 16:54:56

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I just watched the david nivens version of BPC and found it a horrid film, but on the bright side my friends and i found a drinking game for it too. Everytime they qoute a jacobite song as main text for the characters... take a drink. Tell you the truth listening to the dialog for the songs used as text was the highlight of an otherwise terrible romantic 1940's film. oh wait my bad, check out the swords and especially BPC's targe. In one shot Nivens waves the targe. Was that a reproduction made in the 1940's or was that one of the originals??? if it was a repro, then it puts the modern one to shame.

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Reply #18 - 08/09/05 at 21:00:34

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I found the "1746 the Last Highland Charge" (otherwise known as "Chasing the Deer") on e-bay and bought it. Very pleased... A rather funny movie (a lot of screw-ups and quite a few of the key charactors don't seem to fit in, if you know what I mean). So many costume details that makes me angry! But overall I enjoy it!
Hey! Have any of you guys noticed that Stuart Reid has managed to get a tiny role in the film? He slipps in front of camera during the disciplinning/punishment scene, and brings the Campbell lad away, and mutters "Come here" or something...

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Henrik

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Reply #19 - 03/29/06 at 13:04:01

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Hello together,
I would experience gladly more to the BBC documentation of Peter Watkins "Culloden"!
Is it worth to procure itself the film?

Also I saw "Chasing the Deer", to! However in German translation. Wink

A nice Movie it is i think!

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Reply #20 - 03/30/06 at 18:30:16

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Hi Florian,

Yes! I like it very much. In fact I think it's the best documentary about Culloden that's made.
I bought it from the British Film Institute's website; http://www.bfi.org.uk But they may not have it in their catalogue any longer... You might search for it on Ebay as well.
hehe. I would like to see Chasing the Deer with German dubbing! Cheesy

Cheers,
Henrik

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Reply #21 - 03/30/06 at 18:40:38

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Have any of you by chanse seen the Battlefield Britain Series with Dan and Peter Snow? It's a documetary series with both reenactment and computer animations to make the battles become "alive". They made a program about Culloden as well (you can find it on DVD on Ebay). I think it shows some good reenactment and some cool animations, but overall I think the Snows have too much an offisial English view on most of the battles they present in their seiries, including Culloden.
In their presentation of Culloden they sort of gives the impession that the Hielanders were barbarians with an out-dated way of life and pretty much had it coming Sad

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Henrik

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Reply #22 - 03/30/06 at 19:16:52

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Ah, Henrik, you confirm the adage, "History is written by the victors, songs by the vanquished."

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Reply #23 - 04/02/06 at 02:53:23

Lee Offline
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I recently saw (yet again, thanks to BBC love of repeats Grin

) the Snow's Battlefield Britain and have to agree that they do seem slightly biased. But then Vicar Wm Gray Beard Abernethy's comment is quite right.

The trouble when watching a film concerning something you have a passion about is that you can't watch it without picking fault with it (normally to the annoyance of those around you!!). My passion since I was 12 (and I'm 39 this May) has been the Great War and I can't watch a WWI film without pulling it too shreds.

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Reply #24 - 04/03/06 at 19:53:04

Henrik_B._Boegh Offline
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Now that is so true, Vicar!
I do the same, Lee. I taped that Battlefield Britain episode (along with the one about the Boyne, which is far more provocing episode than the one with Culloden), so I can watch it and get annoyed time and time again!!! Lovely Cheesy

HEHE

If you ever get the chanse see the Great Battles series which Discovery Channel made some years ago you should see the episodes about Naseby, Boyne and Culloden (and perhaps Blenheim as well). I think they are quite good. It has a far more balanced script, trying to stick with facts. I taped the episodes about Culloden and Boyne and Hastings and I watch them from time to time. Only pity is that there are too few reenactors in them and the episodes lasts only half an hour!

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Henrik

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