Rob Roy The Highland Rogue 1953

[Kilted Rogue]

I just got a copy and watched this movie. Its completely different then the Liam Neeson version. Its Disney production and the accents are a little off and on, but the kits and kit are nice to look at. Anyone else seen this one?

[Morris at Heathfield]

It's the only version I've seen. (Well, maybe I've watched the sword fight from the 1995 version on YouTube.) I used to watch it quite frequently when I was young. My grandpa had a satellite dish and recorded a bunch of stuff on VHS tapes, especially from the Disney Channel. I've been wanting to watch it again, but I can't seem to find that particular tape. I do remember that everyone was wearing their proper clan tartans back in 1715.

[OC Richard]

I recall watching that movie many years ago at a Scottish-themed party.

There was a fluent Scots Gaelic speaker at the party and he had a laugh at the scene using Gaelic.

Brigadoon was on TV last week and it's hard to watch, with the corny jokes and dated acting and absurd costumes and horrible fake Scottish accents.

Costumes and accents haven't got much better in recent years: just watch the newer Rob Roy, and Braveheart.

[Kilted Rogue]

Well Braveheart is a wash. costumes and historically speaking. Besides Ol'Mel is to much of a train wreck.

[Morris at Heathfield]

The only Gaelic I remember from the movie is:

Cruachan!

I think it's fitting that James Robertson Justice portrayed Argyll, as Alexander Robertson of Struan and his father were friends with Argyll's father and grandfather, despite their political differences. Struan wrote the following poem about their friendship, according to The Lairds of Glenlyon:

GRATITUDE: AN EPIGRAM.

"Sure we remember how, in days of yore,
When fawning chiefs oppressed Macaillein-Voir,
And fraudfully brought on his hasty fall
Clan-Donnoch's fairer chief forsook them all:
He nobly waved to lend his helping hand
To what he thought too rigid a command,
And ventured rather to displease the King
Than meanly bend to an unmanly thing.
This deed of worth remained not long unpaid,
But the foundation of strong friendship laid.
Clan-Donnoch's heir, while yet in early bloom,
Moved by some dictates of too subtle Rome,
By Argethalian power was kindly freed
From hostile bondage and forbad to bleed.
Thus generous actions and a grateful mind,
By mutual impulse mutually inclined,
Alternately beget each others' kind.
O! may this plighted ardour still remain
Fixed without change, and fair without a stain."

[Jack Daw]

The Disney movie title leads one to infer that it was based on Daniel DeFoe's small tale; while Rob Roy (1995) is based on the prologue (only) to Walter Scott's fictional novel. The prologue was used to explain who RR was before WS went into his fictional tale that featured the title character as only a secondary figure.

[Tobus]

while Rob Roy (1995) is based on the prologue (only) to Walter Scott's fictional novel.

Really?! I recently read Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy, and found the prologue to be vastly different than the 1995 movie. If they really based the movie on that prologue, they took a LOT of artistic license. The two hardly resemble each other at all.

[Kilted Rogue]

I need to get a copy of that and read it for myself. Is it easy to come by?

[Dale Seago]

I need to get a copy of that and read it for myself. Is it easy to come by?

At the moment, Amazon has 4 paperback copies in stock:

http://www.amazon.com/Rob-Penguin-Cl.../dp/0140435549




EDIT: And there's a free e-book version:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7025/7025-h/7025-h.htm

[Tartan Tess]

We all know what the Rob Roy tartan looks like eh? Red and Black checks.
Well, Sir Walter Scott also wrote about Robin Hood (Locksley in Ivanhoe) in 1819 and that year a "Robin Hood" tartan was recorded, you guessed it; Green and Black checks!