ROB ROY, THE HIGHLAND ROGUE
(Disney-RKO) ' F New Zealanders are likely to be disconcerted by Pinewood’s version of early New Zealand, Caledonians (who take themselves even more seriously) will be downright affronted by Mr. Disney’s treatment of one of the legendary heroes of the Highlands. The Rob Roy of the film (played by Richard Todd, a shilpit wee cateran in a ginger whisker) is no more than a comic-book caricature of the wild MacGregor Scott wrote about. Indeed, there is no connection whatever (save a remote point of origin) between the Waverley novel and Mr. Disney’s opus. If you will examine the title of the film again you will observe that it is concerned with Rob Roy the Highland Rogue-and if you find a roguish quality in the picture you can’t complain that you haven’t been warned. There is much discomfiting of Sassenachs-mainly the mercenaries of the Duke of Montrose; there is pleasant Technicolor, and some fine scenery shot in the Trossachs (but nary
a patch of purple heather); James Robertson Justice plays a robust. Argyle and Eric Pohlmann makes a credible George I. Rob’s Helen Mary, Glynis Johns, is just as hopelessly out of place in a Highland bothie as she is in a New Zealand whare. Undoubtedly, Rob Roy will entertain the small fry (for whom it was perhaps intended), but it is not recommended for adults. And if I were Mr. Disney I'd think twice about crossing the Highland line again. The MacGregors might start gathering. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 16
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249ROB ROY, THE HIGHLAND ROGUE New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 16
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