mr donald pleasance clearly base his performance on spike milligan interpretation of the great mcgonagall be give a rare opportunity to air his scottish accent . so and unfortunately and be mr freddie jones and mr jack watson and mr jack hawkins and sir michael caine and who and in kidnappedis force to wear clothes a p. g. wodehouse bookmaker would regard a de trop . a a scotsman raise in england i have no personal agenda here . everybody hat the english i accept that it come with the badge a it be . mr delbert mann be as entitle a the next person to have a pop and much a fellow american mr mel gibson do many year later and but he be take the ps a bit use big name english actor to do it . it be a fact universally acknowledge that anything more subtle than the see you jimmy . brand of scottish dialect be beyond all but the fine mimic . here and that beautiful treasure house be rap and plunder then trample over in favour of a generic accent like a third rate tour company fumble their way through the scottish play on a wet tuesday night in hull . an honourable exception be mr trevor howard a the advocate general and a splendid exposition of the upper class scotsman and at home neither with the english nor his own countryman . mr caine decides on a gorblimey guvnor the noo style of speech that never work for me . at least mr jones give it the whole eye rollingrobert newton routine and no half measure there . the exterior sequence be competent if not particularly exciting and there be a nice sense of the rugged countryside at time and but much of the movie be static and almost stagey in nature . the fight in the ship cabin be clumsily handle and i fear some of the scenery be actually go to collapse under the weight of the fly body . mr robert louis stephenson himself once write . sometimes it be well to travel hopefully than to arrive word to consider if you be to avoid disappointment after decide to watch this version of kidnap .