After being shanghaied while trying to claim an inheritance, David Balfour falls in with outlaw Jacobite rebel, and various shenanigans ensue as wrongs are righted, hopefully.
Robert Louis Stephenson's classic novel is filmed (again) very attractively. There is a good cast, some heavyweights accompanied by a collection of decent character actors.
And at the heart, we have David Balfour played by Lawrence Douglas, an actor with 18 minor TV credits and 3 movies, this being the only one of any significance. He does not command the screen. But Michael Caine does, as Alan Breck, but mainly because you wonder how he thought he could get away with that accent as Scottish.
Robert Louis Stephenson's classic novel is filmed (again) very attractively. There is a good cast, some heavyweights accompanied by a collection of decent character actors.
And at the heart, we have David Balfour played by Lawrence Douglas, an actor with 18 minor TV credits and 3 movies, this being the only one of any significance. He does not command the screen. But Michael Caine does, as Alan Breck, but mainly because you wonder how he thought he could get away with that accent as Scottish.