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Kidnapped / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; director, Alan Crosland ; scenario by Sumner Williams.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmSeries: Conquest program ; no. 9Publication details: United States : K.E.S.E., 1917.Description: 5 film reels of 5 (1,803 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm; 5 film reels of 5 (1,803 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm; 5 film reels of 5 (1,803 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mmSubject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • FLA 1582-1586 (viewing print)
  • FRA 4033-4037 (dupe neg pic)
  • FRA 4038-4042 (non-viewing print)
Cast: Joseph Burke, Raymond McKee, Robert Cain, William Wadsworth, Franklyn Hanna, John Nicholson, Walter Craven, Horace Hain, Samuel Niblack, Ray Hallor, James Levering.Summary: Miser Ebenezer Balfour attempts to cheat his nephew David from the boy's rightful inheritance by having unscrupulous ship captain Elias Hoseason kidnap the lad for the purpose of selling him as a slave in the Carolinas. David manages to escape from the ship where he had been incarcerated, along with Alan Breck, a gentleman outlaw who had boarded the ship when it hit the small boat in which he had been journeying. David was fleeing from slavery, Breck from being the victim of robbery and murder. After a series of adventures in the Scottish Highlands, the two, having fought and made up, return to England where they restore David's estate to him, and Breck leaves to take up the cause of his exiled Stuart king.
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Books Books St. Thomas Becket Library Fiction: Grades 3-6 JF STE Available 3520

Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 5Apr17; LP10571.

Originally intended for release by Forum Films, Inc., on May 7, 1917.

Nitrate deterioration printed through. DLC

Based on the 18th century adventure novel of the same title by Robert Louis Stevenson.

A Conquest picture.

Moving picture world, v. 31.2, p. 1947.

Moving picture world, v. 32, p. 1180, 1307.

Moving picture world, v. 34.1, p. 127.

Moving picture news, v. 15, p. 3163.

Joseph Burke, Raymond McKee, Robert Cain, William Wadsworth, Franklyn Hanna, John Nicholson, Walter Craven, Horace Hain, Samuel Niblack, Ray Hallor, James Levering.

Miser Ebenezer Balfour attempts to cheat his nephew David from the boy's rightful inheritance by having unscrupulous ship captain Elias Hoseason kidnap the lad for the purpose of selling him as a slave in the Carolinas. David manages to escape from the ship where he had been incarcerated, along with Alan Breck, a gentleman outlaw who had boarded the ship when it hit the small boat in which he had been journeying. David was fleeing from slavery, Breck from being the victim of robbery and murder. After a series of adventures in the Scottish Highlands, the two, having fought and made up, return to England where they restore David's estate to him, and Breck leaves to take up the cause of his exiled Stuart king.

The George Kleine Collection of early motion pictures in the Library of Congress : a catalog / prepared by Rita Horwitz and Harriet Harrison with the assistance of Wendy White. Library of Congress, 1980.