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Jan 31, 1984 · The Master of Ballantrae: Directed by Douglas Hickox. With Richard Thomas, Michael York, John Gielgud, Timothy Dalton. The story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.
The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was a co production between the US and Britain for the Hallmark Hall of Fame . [1] In Britain it aired on ITV in two parts in April 1984.
Mar 26, 1997 · This was the Master of Ballantrae, my Lord Durrisdeer’s son, a young nobleman of the rarest gallantry and parts, and equally designed by nature to adorn a Court and to reap laurels in the field. Our meeting was the more welcome to both, as he was one of the few Scots who had used the Irish with consideration, and as he might now be of very ...
James Durie, the master of Ballantrae. Reported dead after the Battle of Culloden, he escapes to America, then goes to France, where he makes heavy financial demands on his brother Henry, now the ...
The story’s conclusion bears this out: the two brothers are brought to a bleak and savage end, together and far from home, in the trackless wastes of North America. The Master of Ballantrae reviews and revises the world of the earlier novels (including Jekyll and Hyde) to make one of Stevenson’s most challenging and thought-provoking books.
Kindle $2.99. Stevenson’s brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme—the elemental struggle between good and evil—as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, amid the fierce loyalties and violent enmities that characterized Scottish history. When two brothers attempt to split their loyalties ...
Mar 30, 2011 · Master of Ballantrae is the story of two brothers, one good and one bad. James, the wicked one, is heir to the family fortune, is daddy's favorite, and can charm the rattle off a snake. The good brother, Henry, is quiet and self-effacing and not much liked by anybody. The novel is set in England in 1745.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
