Word: robs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rob Roy (Disney; RKO Radio), the third chapter in Walt Disney's attempt to write a child's history of England on film, suggests that Producer Disney is at the same time rewriting the old-fashioned Hollywood book on how to make a costume adventure...
...Rob Roy, as for the The Story of Robin Hood and The Sword and the Rose, Producer Disney spent no more than $1,500,000. He took a small crew of technicians and not very famed actors to the same ground his story was lived on-in this case the Scottish Highlands. There, among the dingy granges and the ancient trods of the Trossachs country, where the furry cattle stand and stare in the emerald braes as they have for hundreds of years, he set up his cameras. The players appear to feel themselves living again...
Producer Disney was almost as true in story as in style to the old Scots legend. Rob Roy (Richard Todd) is chief of Clan MacGregor, A.D. 1715. He loves a High land lassie, Helen Mary (Glynis Johns), but hesitates to marry her as long as he is fighting the English. Against them he wages a brilliant guerrilla war that finally discredits the British Secretary of State for Scotland, the cruel Duke of Montrose (Michael Gough), and brings a true Scottish patriot, the Duke of Argyll (James Robertson Justice) back to power. In the end, Rob, his bagpiper and his sword...
...principals in Rob Roy, Actor Todd and Actress Johns, are the same Disney used in The Sword and the Rose-Todd was in Robin Hood too-and they play the man and maid with a pleasant innocence and archaic grace. Actors Gough and Justice, also in the previous pictures, are admirable swashbucklers both. The local types are nicely interpolated-a red-cheeked Gaelic extra makes such a vivid vernacular dither with a Highland air that she steals a big scene from the lovers...
What most wins the heart in Rob Roy, more even than the beauty of its backgrounds, is its modesty. The gathering of the clan for Rob Roy's wedding is, for instance, no massive conclave, but a nice little country get-together of 30 or 40 people. The famed battle of Sheriffmuir is not mounted as a mighty spectacle, with thousands of warriors arrayed on either side, but is shown as it must have been fought: with a gaggle of half-armed crofters opposing a fairly small troop of British regulars. Producer Disney seems to have had an idea...