The Master of Ballantrae

Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.

Cast

Errol Flynn

as Jamie Durie

Roger Livesey

as Col. Francis Burke

Anthony Steel

as Henry Durie

Beatrice Campbell

as Lady Alison

Yvonne Furneaux

as Jessie Brown

Felix Aylmer

as Lord Durrisdeer

Mervyn Johns

as MacKellar

Charles Goldner

as Capt. Mendoza

Ralph Truman

as Clarendon

Francis de Wolff

as Matthew Bull

Reviews

Filipe Manuel Neto

**A little-known film, but with quality, with Flynn in one of the last good works of his career.** Another swashbuckling film starring Errol Flynn and directly inspired by a literary work by the great Robert Lewis Stevenson. A film similar to others made by the actor throughout a brilliant career...

CinemaSerf

Errol Flynn leads the way with an excellent Roger Livesey in this rather lively adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's swashbuckling tale of Scotland immediately after the failed Jacobite rebellion, As was common during many civil wars; the landed gentry hedged their bets by having a foot in each ca...

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