Plots(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic subplot, but that didn't stop 20th Century Fox from including a female love interest (Arleen Whelan). Bypassing that plot point, Kidnapped stars Freddie Bartholomew as the heir to a Scottish estate, whose supposedly beneficent uncle (Reginald Owen) arranges for the boy to be kidnapped and spirited off to sea. The lad is rescued by Scottish rebel leader Alan Breck (Warner Baxter), and together the pair fight against the British Army troops as they head back through Scotland. Baxter doesn't quite liberate his homeland, but Bartholomew sees to it that his uncle gets his just deserts. Kidnapped was remade in 1947 with Roddy McDowell (just old enough to be given a girlfriend of his own by the screenwriters), then twice more in 1960 and 1971. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Warner Baxter
USA
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Freddie Bartholomew
UK
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Arleen Whelan
USA
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C. Aubrey Smith
UK
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Reginald Owen
UK
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John Carradine
USA
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Nigel Bruce
Mexico
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Miles Mander
UK
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Ralph Forbes
UK
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H.B. Warner
UK
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Arthur Hohl
USA
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E.E. Clive
UK
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Halliwell Hobbes
UK
Best movies:
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To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Montagu Love
UK
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The Sea Hawk (1940)
Moroni Olsen
USA
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Mary Gordon
UK
Best movies:
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Forrester Harvey
Ireland
Best movies:
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Rebecca (1940)
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Clyde Cook
Australia
Best movies:
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The Sea Hawk (1940)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Russell Hicks
USA
Best movies:
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Scarlet Street (1945)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Eily Malyon
UK
Best movies:
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