Kidnapped (1960 film)
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Kidnapped is a 1960 American adventure drama film. It is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic 1886 novel Kidnapped. It stars Peter Finch and James MacArthur, and was Disney's second production based on a novel by Stevenson, the first being Treasure Island. It also marked Peter O'Toole's feature-film debut.
Original theatrical poster by Reynold Brown
Kidnapped (novel)
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Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.
First American edition, New York: Scribner's Sons, 1886
Kidnapped sketch of route of ship and David's walk across Scotland
Robert Louis Stevenson at age 35 in 1885
Kidnapped cover, by William Brassey Hole, London edition, Cassell and Company, 1886