

In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
Acting
Dan O'Herlihy's Alan Breck steals every scene with swagger.
Production
Gorgeous Scottish locations that Hollywood rarely bothered to actually film.

Director
William Beaudine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of many Kidnapped adaptations; Disney would later animate it as a live-action hybrid in 1960.
The film sidesteps the novel's real Jacobite politics—1950s Hollywood wasn't about to sympathize with Scottish rebellion against the crown.