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George McBean
Alexander McDonald (uncredited)
Olivier Espitalier-Noel
Prince Charles Edward Stuart (uncredited)
Tony Cosgrove
Lt. Ward / Field Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
Robert Oates
Private Alexander Laing (uncredited)
Patrick Watkins
Crying Baby (uncredited)
Don Fairservice
English Officer (uncredited)
Peter Watkins
Field Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
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Review 1DiscussionA review by Peter McGinn
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Written by Peter McGinn on Wed Apr 19 2023
This must be one of the first docudramas around. They interview the battle participants and bystanders as in a documentary, but of course they are all actors since the battle took place in the 1700s.
The film must mean more to the British and Scottish viewers than a mere Anglophile like myself, as it involves the last land battle fought on their soil and the final one of this clan uprising under the overrated Bonnie Prince Charlie.
The show suggests that the Scottish strategy was deeply flawed to the point that the Prince’s own generals were mystified, and that it led not only to defeat b...
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Keywords
- scotland
- british army
- highlander
- docudrama
- 18th century
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- historical reenactment
- scottish highlands
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