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- The Master of Ballantrae is a 1953 British Technicolor adventure film starring Errol Flynn and Roger Livesey.
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THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE: A WINTER’S TALE is considered by many to be Robert Louis Stevenson’s best novel, although it probably is not as well-known as TREASURE ISLAND or...
The Master of Ballantrae, novel by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, first serialized in Scribner’s Magazine in 1888–89 and published in book form in 1889. The novel provides another example of the moral ambiguity Stevenson had explored earlier in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde .
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The Master of Ballantrae is a 1953 British Technicolor adventure film starring Errol Flynn and Roger Livesey. It is a loose and highly truncated adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson 1889 novel of the same name. In eighteenth century Scotland, two sons of a laird clash over the family estate and a lady.
Plot Summary. Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale examines the conflict between two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745. The novel opens in the year 1745 and is presented as the memoir of Ephraim Mackellar, steward of the Durrisdeer estate ...
Jan 31, 1984 · TV Movie. 1984. 2h 30m. IMDb RATING. 6.8 /10. 203. YOUR RATING. Rate. Adventure. The story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745. Director. Douglas Hickox. Writers. William Bast. Robert Louis Stevenson. Stars. Richard Thomas. Michael York. John Gielgud. See production info at IMDbPro.
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Set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, in the exotic French Indies, and in the North American wilderness, the story has as its hero one of the most compelling yet horrifying studies of evil in nineteenth-century fiction—James Durie, Master of Ballantrae.
The family consists of the old Lord and his two sons, James (the eldest son and Master of Ballantrae) and Lord Henry. Miss Alison Graeme, a relative, and heir to a great fortune, also lives with the family. In order to keep her wealth in the family, Alison is pledged to be the Master’s wife.
