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Apr 18, 2022 · The 2008 film Stone Of Destiny, starring Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Billy Boyd, and Robert Carlyle, follows the Stone’s removal and return. How accurate is its depiction of the heist and of the Scottish independence movement in the middle of the last century?
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stone of destiny movie true story 1972 victims photos mike finkel movies based on a true story Stone of Destiny is a 2008 Scottish-Canadian historical adventure comedy film written and directed by Charles Martin Smith and starring Charlie Cox, Billy Boyd, Robert Carlyle, and Kate Mara. Based on real events, the film tells the story of the removal of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey.
To understand the significance of the film's title, one must know at least a brief history of the Stone of Scone, also called the Stone of Destiny, and its sociopolitical significance to Scots. For a thousand years, the coro. nation of every Scottish, English, or British monarch took place on this Stone.
Stone of Destiny: Directed by Charles Martin Smith. With Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Stephen McCole, Ciaron Kelly. The story of Ian Hamilton, a dedicated nationalist who reignited Scottish national pride in the 1950s with his daring raid on the heart of England to bring the Stone of Scone back to Scotland.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Crime
- Charles Martin Smith
- 2008-12-19
Jul 1, 2008 · Based on a true story, Canuck-Brit co-production “Stone of Destiny” dramatizes how a gaggle of students broke into London’s Westminster Abbey on Christmas Eve, 1950, and stole the ancient...
Jun 30, 2009 · Stone of Destiny tells the true story of four Scottish students, Charlie Cox’s Ian Hamilton, Kate Mara’s Kay Matheson, Ciaron Kelly’s Alan Stuart, and Stephen McCole’s Gavin Vernon, who conspire to steal back their country’s so-called “Stone of Destiny” from London’s Westminster Abbey, with the myriad obstacles that ensue ...
Dec 19, 2008 · Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scottish nationalistic pride.
