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.
Kidnapped (1960 film) Walt Disney in England when Disney visited the set and suggested they adapt Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Kidnapped" for their next project. Stevenson re-read the novel, was enthused, and wrote a treatment on a working holiday in Scotland. When another project he was working on fell over, Stevenson wrote a screenplay for "Kidnapped". The novel had been filmed twice before by Hollywood studios, in 1938 and 1942. 20th Century Fox had registered rights to the title but waived them and the film was announced in December 1958. Stevenson says Disney was of great use when working on the script. Many