Kidnapped (1971 film) Kidnapped (1971 film) Kidnapped is a 1971 British adventure film, directed by Delbert Mann and starring Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins and Donald Pleasence, as well as a number of well-known British character actors. The film is based on the novel "Kidnapped" and the first half of the sequel "Catriona" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Young David Balfour arrives at a bleak Scottish house, the House of Shaws, to claim his inheritance after his father. The house and land have been under the custodianship of his father's brother, Ebeneezer Balfour, but on reaching adulthood, the land and property become David's.
The "Sweetest Girl" words in "The “Sweetest Girl”", thereby rendering it as "Sweetest Girl" The B-side, "Lions After Slumber" takes its title and quotes, in its final lines, from the 1819 political poem "The Masque of Anarchy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The cover of the song by ska-pop band Madness was included on their 1985 album "Mad Not Mad" and released as a single the following year. The song spent 6 weeks in British charts peaking at number 35. The song video was featured in the 1986 BBC "Omnibus" documentary "Video Jukebox". The "Sweetest Girl" "The “Sweetest Girl”" (sic) is a song written