Kidnapped

Kidnapped (1938)

A triumph in big-picture entertainment! Filmed in glorious new sepia-tone!

Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

Date of release
1938-05-27
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Adventure, Drama
Director
Alfred L. Werker

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Kidnapped

Kidnapped is a 1938 American adventure film directed by Otto Preminger and Alfred L. Werker, starring Warner Baxter and Freddie Bartholomew. It is based on the 1886 novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Production notes

The film's credits open with a picture of Robert Louis Stevenson lying in bed writing.

The screen credit for the title reads, "Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour."

In his autobiography, Otto Preminger recounts that he was surprised when, after having directed only two films in Hollywood, he was assigned to Kidnapped, a big-budget film. Preminger, who was not familiar with the book, read the script and complained to his friend, Gregory Ratoff, who was acting as Zanuck's assistant, that he did not want to direct the film because he had no understanding of the people in the part of the world where the story to…

Other films based on the same book include a 1948 Monogram release starring Roddy McDowell and Dan O'Herlihy and directed by William Beaudine; a 1960 Walt Disney production directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Peter Finch and James MacArthur; and a 1971 American International Pictures version, directed by Delbert Mann and starring Michael Caine and Lawrence Douglas.

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