Kidnapped (1917 film)

Kidnapped
Directed by	Alan Crosland
Written by	Charles Sumner Williams (scenario)
Based on	Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Starring	Raymond McKee Joseph Burke Ray Hallor
Production company	Edison Studios
Release date	May 7, 1917 (1917-05-07)
Running time	64 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Kidnapped (1917)

Kidnapped is a 1917 American silent adventure film directed by Alan Crosland for Edison Studios. It was based on the 1886 novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film only included selected parts of the story, and reinforced the then-developing romanticisation of the Scottish Highlands. ^{[1] [2]}

Previously thought lost, a copy of the film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection, with a 2017 DVD of the film being released with the help of the Library of Congress and crowdfunding. ^{[3] [4]}

Cast

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

References

1. Brown, Ian (2007). The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918). Edinburgh University Press. p. 54. ISBN   9780748624829.
2. MacDonald, Fiona (2007). Kidnapped. Salariya Publishers. p. 46. ISBN   9781904642046.
3. "Kidnapped / Alan Crosland [motion picture]:Bibliographic Record Description: Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress". American Memory. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
4. "In Which I Unbox Myself: The Complete Kidnapped Program (1917) is on DVD!". August 21, 2018.

External links

• Kidnapped at IMDb