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Bonnie Prince Charlie is a 1948 British historical film directed by Anthony Kimmins for London Films depicting the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion and the role of Bonnie Prince Charlie within it. Filmed in Technicolor , it stars David Niven , Jack Hawkins , and Margaret Leighton .
The action starts in 1745, when Bonnie Prince Charlie lands in Scotland and the last Jacobite rebellion breaks out. James, the Master of Ballantrae, is a brave but foolish and hot-headed young man. He decides to join the uprising, against the advice of his father, Lord Durisdeer, and younger brother, Henry Durie.
It depicts the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, in which Bonnie Prince Charlie landed in Scotland, trying to claim the British throne. The title metaphorically alludes to the Jacobites as the quarry in a deer hunt. [1] The phrase "a-chasing the deer" appears in the refrain of the romantic Scottish poem by Robert Burns, My Heart's in the Highlands (1789).
Pages in category "Jacobite rising of 1745 films" ... Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948 film) C. Chasing the Deer; Culloden (film) M. The Master of Ballantrae (1953 film)
The Young Jacobites is a 1960 British children's drama film serial directed by John Reeve and starring Robert Haviland, Francesca Annis and Jeremy Bulloch. [1] The screenplay was by Paul Tabori . It was produced by Anthony Gilikson for the Children's Film Foundation .
Researchers at the University of Dundee have recreated the face of Bonnie Prince Charlie as he appeared when leading the unsuccessful 18th century Jacobite rebellion as he sought to reclaim the ...
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Anti-Jacobite broadside depicting Jenny Cameron and Bonnie Prince Charlie on horseback. Despite Cameron probably having limited involvement in the course of the rising, a number of "cruel and apocryphal" [6] accounts were circulated in England, some of which portrayed Cameron as an active military leader, an "amazon" marching at the head of her ...