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The wartime adventures of Scottish Highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George in the 18th century.
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00:05:58Those dragoons have done the trick
00:06:00It's where we had them
00:06:01It takes more than foot soldiers to stop Highland men
00:06:09Prisoners, three lads, three lads and a clan chief among them, sir
00:06:44men to the top of the hill in full view of the highlanders and hold them there you will give
00:06:49me the signal to charge there will be no signal the very sight of such numbers will win the day
00:06:54for us but my lord duke my muskets can wipe every rebel in scotland off the face of the earth
00:07:00give
00:07:00me a free hand and there'll be more bonnets than heads in half an hour no we must spare the
00:07:07lovely
00:07:07blue bonnets are the finest men in the world i came to kill your lovely blue bonnets and to sweep
00:07:15through the highlands with fire and sword and by all the goats in carry i'm a highlander myself you
00:07:20bloody-minded masonry i should be fast to report this to mr walpole report what you will but
00:07:26question under my command you'll do as you're told
00:07:57the men are coming home
00:08:01aye but summer not
00:08:28the men are coming home
00:08:54oh
00:09:27What has happened to my Robbie?
00:09:30They've taken him to Stirling Castle.
00:09:34You're his nearest kinsman, and you dare to show your faces in the glen without him.
00:09:39We did but come to ask for his best played in Sporren. Then we'll give ourselves up to be at
00:09:42his sight.
00:09:43Aye. They'll not be taking Rob to England like a brickless Catherine. He must go as a gentleman.
00:09:48Even to his own hanging.
00:09:52He is not hanged yet.
00:10:02This is far enough. You'll wait for me here.
00:10:05I will not let your ladyship go into Stirling alone.
00:10:08I hear I tell you.
00:10:22Argyle?
00:10:23Yes, Montrose?
00:10:27The council has been reviewing Whiteman's final report of the battle.
00:10:31Yes.
00:10:33The figures appear to be inconclusive.
00:10:36In what way?
00:10:38Our losses were greater than those of the rebels.
00:10:42My lord Duke, victories are not always measured by the numbers slain.
00:10:45I have no doubt that you can make London see it that way.
00:10:55Just a moment.
00:10:57Cousin Margaret.
00:11:02You know why I've come?
00:11:04Aye.
00:11:05You've been told.
00:11:08I'm sorry Margaret, but I'm very...
00:11:11You're busy just now.
00:11:12Well, I...
00:11:18I can wait.
00:11:21Aye.
00:11:26You have a list of the prisoners?
00:11:28Such as it is.
00:11:29A mere 19 in all.
00:11:31And only three lairds among them.
00:11:34However, we do have the McGregor chief to throw to the English jurists.
00:11:38Scots will be tried in Scotland.
00:11:40McGregor and all the rest.
00:11:41My lord.
00:11:42Would it not be politic, in view of so slight a victory, to deliver up our chief prize for trial
00:11:48in London?
00:11:49Would you be responsible for taking him there?
00:11:52I would indeed.
00:11:53And you call yourself a Scot?
00:11:56Ah!
00:11:56There's little enough of the good Scots left in your speech and none at all in your heart!
00:11:59My lord!
00:12:00What a child for a politician like you, Montrose!
00:12:03A captive tied to your chariot wheels!
00:12:05I am not Secretary of State for Scotland.
00:12:07You are.
00:12:08And it's your loyalty that may be questioned.
00:12:10Not mine.
00:12:12Are you interested in my loyalty?
00:12:14Or the office I hold?
00:12:16I'll tell you this, Argyne.
00:12:18If you don't deliver McGregor to London, you'll have no office to hold.
00:12:26You'll do well to think it over.
00:12:42You're the only one to do well, and you, Borna Campbell.
00:12:49I'm not proud to be called Campbell, when the chief of my own clan put my Robbie in jail.
00:12:54His own hot blood put him there.
00:12:57if yours had not gone cold argyle you'd be in jail beside him oh i'm fighting for scotland too
00:13:03but in a different way long ago i realized we can never seat the exiled king james on england's
00:13:09throne if we're to live in peace we must be better neighbors and before i let hotheads like
00:13:15your rob destroy old scotland i'll see them all in jail london must think you're the great man
00:13:23margaret i'm trying to get an amnesty for all the highlands to do so i must make a bow towards
00:13:29london it may sound hard to you but rob must stand his trial with the rest
00:13:36oh i see now
00:13:49would it help you at all to send my robbie to london you know what you're saying
00:13:53down there they stretch his neck in a minute
00:13:59if if you did send him there would disgrace the duke montrose take him does it matter
00:14:06it might
00:14:09it's a long road to london the ways are bad and full of highwaymen
00:14:15i should not like montrose to fall in with the kind of highwayman you'd put in his path
00:14:20you mcgregor woman you oh you have my word as one camel to another no mcgregor would harm
00:14:27a hair of his wig oh yes we must mind his wig it would be a thundering great catastrophe
00:14:34if his lordship's feathers were ruffled oh hi
00:14:48you must forgive my coachman if he seems over anxious to get you out of the country
00:14:53like his master true once you're rid of me in london you think you'll have a free hand in the
00:14:58highlands
00:14:58half our crofters pay rent to you now i see no reason to deny the other half my patronage
00:15:05no reason but one and what is that when my clansmen have their belly full of thieving land grabbers
00:15:11they have a way of flinging them in the loch
00:15:14nay killer let him talk his words will be choked off all too soon
00:15:22oh
00:15:22come on come on come on come on come on come on
00:15:26come on
00:15:27come right
00:15:31come right here way there may way
00:15:33aye sir aye did you know here make way for the gentleman
00:15:37aye oh come on come on come on here come on ahead ready ready ready ready
00:15:42come on there you blethering fools drive those sheep off the road
00:15:45knock
00:16:04knock
00:16:06knock
00:16:13Wipe the dust from his clothes, Nabby.
00:16:17His lordship's wig.
00:16:23That's better.
00:16:25Will your grace please accept this small reminder
00:16:28to keep your nose out of MacGregor business?
00:16:51Oh, Robbie, so you got away.
00:16:56Aye, thanks to Dougal, you and Nabby.
00:17:00Ah, the bunny lads.
00:17:02New curtains.
00:17:03I was making things fine for your homecoming.
00:17:05You were so sure I'd be back?
00:17:07Well, I hoped.
00:17:11Nada, the trouble's not ended yet.
00:17:18What are you looking for?
00:17:22My father's pistols.
00:17:23I put them away.
00:17:25Where?
00:17:26In the big chest in my room.
00:17:40You've no need of them, Rob.
00:17:43You wouldn't say that if you knew who was taking me to London.
00:17:46I do know.
00:17:47It was I who sent the men to stop Montrose's coach.
00:17:51But it was Argyle himself who winked at what was done.
00:17:56You went to Argyle.
00:17:58And got down on your knees to the great Campbell.
00:18:02Have a care what you're saying, Robert.
00:18:04I'm a Campbell, too.
00:18:06It seems you've forgotten the fact that you married a MacGregor.
00:18:26I'm sorry, mother.
00:18:29Argyle is not the enemy you think he is.
00:18:33He quelled the rising of the clans like any Englishman.
00:18:36Yes, and he always will.
00:18:38But once the fighting's over, he's just as good a Highlander as you are.
00:18:43He set his mind on an amnesty for the Highlands.
00:18:46He wants the war forgotten.
00:18:49Why don't you forget it, too, Rob?
00:18:52Why don't you try the ways of peace and settle down?
00:19:00I suppose you have the lassie all picked out for me.
00:19:03I don't know who would have you.
00:19:06Has no one at the inn been asking about me?
00:19:09Do you mean Helen Mary?
00:19:11And why not?
00:19:12Oh, she's been busy, I hear.
00:19:15Busy?
00:19:15Well, you wouldn't expect Sir Bonnie Elassie to be stowed for attention now, would you?
00:19:21Oh, no.
00:19:22Not if that's what she's wanting.
00:19:24And why not?
00:19:29Uh, is there anyone she might have a particular fancy for?
00:19:33How would I know?
00:19:35Is there?
00:19:36Well, if I were you, bring me that curtain, please.
00:19:42I would find out.
00:19:44For myself.
00:19:46I'll do no such thing.
00:19:49It was a horseman, I tell you.
00:19:52Take away the horseman, and we'd have driven them into the River Allen.
00:19:56Ah, they don't know what fighting is nowadays.
00:19:58It would be a far different story back in 93.
00:20:01Did I ever tell you about the fighting at Killycranky?
00:20:04You see, it was like this.
00:20:06There was a red coat coming at me from the front.
00:20:09And another all crouched and ready to spring from the rocks above.
00:20:13And that's not counting the one at the back who had me surrounded.
00:20:16All I had was my sword.
00:20:18And what do you think I did then?
00:20:21I cut and I...
00:20:23And I slashed.
00:20:25Till the first one gave ground.
00:20:27I hacked at his head and cut at his knees.
00:20:30And then I turned to settle the hash of the one behind me.
00:20:33And spit at the one on the rocks above.
00:20:36Whirl towards another one.
00:20:38Beat down his guard.
00:20:41And...
00:20:42The way you would clip off a daisy.
00:20:52What was all that about?
00:20:53Oh, I've just been slaying and slaughtering a few red coats.
00:20:56Oh.
00:20:57I'll chop the haggis.
00:20:58You go back to your baking.
00:20:59You'll need an apron over that pretty dress.
00:21:02Eh, what day is it today?
00:21:05It's Thursday, Uncle Hamish.
00:21:07Oh, so it is, so it is.
00:21:10And why are you wearing your Sunday best?
00:21:12You're not expecting anyone, are you?
00:21:14Oh, leave the girl alone.
00:21:16Oh, she started it.
00:21:17Go on.
00:21:18Get out of here.
00:21:21Let's see now.
00:21:22Where was I?
00:21:23You were waiting in red blood right up to the knee.
00:21:26Oh, yes.
00:21:27Yes.
00:21:29When I was in my prime,
00:21:31I could bring down two with every stroke.
00:21:34Three.
00:21:36And sometimes four.
00:21:41Out!
00:21:42Out with you!
00:21:43Thank you!
00:21:46Good evening, Hamish Macpherson.
00:21:48Rub.
00:21:49Oh, rub, lad.
00:21:52If you'd had me in the battle,
00:21:54the two of us could have chased the Sassadaks all the way down to London.
00:21:58Oh, curse.
00:21:59No doubt about it.
00:21:59No doubt about it at all.
00:22:01They say your cousin Dougal is a great man with the glamour,
00:22:04and I don't deny it.
00:22:06We're about the same tallness and broadness,
00:22:08though I may outweigh him by a stone or two.
00:22:11But, oh, Rob, I wish you could have seen me in 93,
00:22:14when I was at Killycranky with Montrose.
00:22:15Ellen Mary.
00:22:16Welcome home.
00:22:17Have you a moment to...
00:22:18Not the Montrose that you escaped from.
00:22:20No.
00:22:20Not that Martin Giebel who sold himself to the English.
00:22:24No.
00:22:25Ellen Mary.
00:22:26Excuse me.
00:22:26No, no.
00:22:26It was his uncle.
00:22:28His uncle, the great Montrose.
00:22:30The Bonnie Dundee.
00:22:32Ah, those were the grand days.
00:22:33Aye.
00:22:36Do you mind when you stalk the century?
00:22:39Aye.
00:22:40Of all your great deeds, that's the story I like the best.
00:22:44Aye.
00:22:44And you took him by surprise in broad daylight.
00:22:48Aye.
00:22:48Ah, lad, that was the instinct of the hunter.
00:22:52There he was.
00:22:56Standing up for all the world to see like a cairn on a mountain top.
00:23:00And there was...
00:23:05Good evening.
00:23:07Oh, Rob.
00:23:09It's grand to have you back.
00:23:12Sit down.
00:23:14You can help the lassie if you've a mind.
00:23:16Eh, thank you.
00:23:17But, eh...
00:23:20Helen Mary.
00:23:21Could I have a straightforward word with you?
00:23:23Alone.
00:23:24Alone?
00:23:25What are you thinking of, Rob?
00:23:27I think I can be trusted.
00:23:29Helen Mary.
00:23:31Have I not been civil to you in the past?
00:23:33Oh, yes, you have, Rob.
00:23:36Very civil.
00:23:37Oh, you're a God-fearing lad, Rob.
00:23:39But you've been away to the wars.
00:23:41And who knows, but you've picked up the loose ways of a soldier.
00:23:45Talking from experience, no doubt.
00:23:48Pay no heed to him, Rob.
00:23:50Sit down.
00:24:00You may speak as free as you like.
00:24:02There are no eavesdroppers in this house.
00:24:06And there'll be no bagpipes either.
00:24:08I'm just going to soften the reed.
00:24:17What was it you were wanting to ask me about?
00:24:22I, eh...
00:24:23Yes, Rob?
00:24:25I wonder how matters lie between us.
00:24:32You were wondering, eh...
00:24:34How matters lie between us.
00:24:37That's what you mean.
00:24:38I mean, you're not a bad-looking girl.
00:24:41It's good of you to say so.
00:24:43And there are other lads about who may have thought so, too.
00:24:45Oh, I don't know.
00:24:47And what about Hector Stewart?
00:24:52Well, he may have cast his eye upon me in the kerk.
00:24:55And no doubt you stared back at that round-eyed bullock.
00:24:58I did not.
00:25:00Hector was minded to speak a straightforward word, too.
00:25:02But he never got past the threshold.
00:25:07Have I...
00:25:08Oh, no.
00:25:14My mother sent you her love.
00:25:16You can take mine back to her.
00:25:18Oh, she loves you like her own daughter.
00:25:21You wouldn't believe the changes she's...
00:25:23You wouldn't believe the changes she's made in the house.
00:25:26Uh, with two new leather, rushy chairs...
00:25:29...and new curtains...
00:25:30...curtains for the windows.
00:25:31...and a great bed of timber.
00:25:36...and a looking glass as tall as...
00:25:38...a looking glass as tall as yourself.
00:25:43My.
00:25:44Oh, there's many a lass I'd be proud to have the overseeing of a house like Inversnade.
00:25:50I have no doubt.
00:25:53Maybe you would.
00:25:55It's better now.
00:25:56Hello.
00:25:59Did you come looking for a housekeeper, Rob?
00:26:01You think he'd be looking for a wife?
00:26:03Well, the man must have something to look at after the Kirk and Sundays.
00:26:07You know fine why I've come.
00:26:09I've been casting my eye upon you, too, these last three years.
00:26:13Have you now?
00:26:16Why would you ever do that?
00:26:21Helen Mary.
00:26:24Will you be here?
00:26:33What do you say?
00:27:07Kinsmen and friends!
00:27:09To Helen Mary.
00:27:11My bride.
00:27:13She's blithe and she's bonnie.
00:27:15She's my mother, over again.
00:27:18And I'd spill my heart's blood in her defense.
00:27:22As this will be token.
00:27:24Oh, she's a bonnie.
00:27:28We will all sing today.
00:27:30We will drink while we may.
00:27:31With a toast to our laddie in a merry merry cup.
00:27:33We will set our cares aside.
00:27:35If you kiss the bonnie bride and go leaping high and wide.
00:27:38While your legs will hold you up.
00:27:41Come on, come on.
00:28:05We will go.
00:28:07Hope you comes to the wall.
00:28:17Yes!
00:28:17Even if we are like, how're we going?
00:28:29THE END
00:29:14Oh
00:29:44Oh
00:29:57Oh
00:30:31Oh
00:30:47Oh
00:31:04What brings you here?
00:31:07I come to read a proclamation from King George
00:31:12It has pleased his majesty to signify his approval of an act of grace and pardon
00:31:17Granting an amnesty to all persons who've committed any treasonable offenses against him
00:31:22Such pardon and amnesty to be granted to all the Highland clans
00:31:27Save only the cursed and traitorous clan McGregor
00:31:31Whose name shall be forever abolished
00:31:35Herewith
00:31:36It is decreed that any man known as McGregor
00:31:40Shall henceforward call himself and his bairns already procreated
00:31:45After any other surname he may choose
00:31:48And
00:31:49It shall be unlawful for a minister of the church of Scotland to baptize or christen any male child called
00:31:56by the name of McGregor
00:31:59Nor shall any man of the clan McGregor at any time bear arms
00:32:05Either weapons offensive or weapons defensive
00:32:08Under pain of death
00:32:10You and your black cattle had best get out of McGregor country while you may
00:32:19Still high and mighty
00:32:21Maybe this will cool your pride
00:32:26I bear a warrant for the arrest of the escaped prisoner Rob McGregor and his return to Stirling Castle
00:32:32Signed and sealed by the Secretary of State for Scotland
00:32:36Don't you believe him Rob
00:32:39The Duke of Argyle would never put his name to such an order
00:32:42This order is from the new secretary
00:32:45The Duke of Montrose
00:32:47Let me see it
00:32:49With pleasure my dear lady
00:32:53If you didn't abide among the mists and the crows
00:32:56You'd know that Argyle has been stripped of his offices and sent to his castle at Inverere
00:33:01Aye
00:33:01Then your Montrose is private fencibles
00:33:05Aye
00:33:05Sent to humble the McGregors
00:33:07Aye
00:33:09Give us the word Rob
00:33:11Aye give us the word
00:33:19No put up your ducks
00:33:21And go back to the punch bowl
00:33:23Aye
00:33:23The punch bowl
00:33:26Aye
00:33:27Go and get puggled if you want
00:33:29But if you try any of your games this time
00:33:31We'll take more than your names away from you
00:33:39Rob
00:33:44Go with my mother Helen Mary
00:33:46To Inver's need
00:33:48Come, lass
00:33:52You've not seen the last of Rob McGregor
00:33:58It takes more than the hook of a sassnuck to hold a Scottish salmon
00:34:23It takes more than the hook of a sassnuck to hold a Scottish salmon
00:34:36Get off of him
00:34:39Get off of him
00:34:40Get off of him
00:34:42Get off of him
00:34:47That's the one's age
00:34:54That's the one's age
00:34:56Martha's down.
00:35:03Look below you.
00:35:24I've seen the great stone.
00:35:30Run stream, you thunderheads!
00:35:58A day and a night is a long time to wait.
00:36:04Are you sure he said he'd meet us here?
00:36:06Aye. He said the punch ball.
00:36:16No, he's not coming.
00:36:18Don't fash yourself, Dougal.
00:36:20Those fenceables will never take Rob out of the Highlands.
00:36:22Well, he's not here now.
00:36:24Give him time, man.
00:36:26He said all the time in the world, and more.
00:36:28You need not get your beard in a blaze.
00:36:30Aye, bide a wee while longer.
00:36:32Sit down, man. Sit down.
00:36:43Come on, man.
00:36:47Come on.
00:36:49Come on.
00:37:01Come on.
00:37:04I'll go on my own.
00:37:04You'll not go alone, Dubo.
00:37:06You can count on me.
00:37:07And me too.
00:37:07Come on, then.
00:37:10Your chief gave orders to meet him here, and here you'll stay until he comes.
00:37:13Stay aside, Dubo!
00:37:14Stardneesh!
00:37:16What's all this tramash about?
00:37:17It was me.
00:37:18It was my doing.
00:37:19Aye, I don't doubt that.
00:37:21He was just wanting to go after you, Rob.
00:37:23There'll be no going after me, and there'll be no more fighting,
00:37:27either among yourselves or against others.
00:37:29Now that Montrose is the high and mighty lordling of Scotland,
00:37:32the clan will have to fight.
00:37:32No, Dougal.
00:37:33If the clan shows fight, he'll burn you out of house and steading.
00:37:37You're not the man he wants.
00:37:38He's after me.
00:37:39You will not be for giving yourself up, Rob.
00:37:42Oh, no.
00:37:43I'll lead his lordship such a chase.
00:37:44He'll have no time left for the rest of the MacGregors.
00:37:46And we're to let you take all the blows and knocks.
00:37:49What kind of man do you think we are?
00:37:50I know the kind you're going to be.
00:37:52You're going back to your own houses,
00:37:54and hide your pistols in the grain bins and your claymores in the thatch,
00:37:58and learn to speak as discreetly as a Glasgow Bailey.
00:38:03With our bonnets in our hands?
00:38:05Aye.
00:38:06With your bonnets in your hands.
00:38:29Come on.
00:38:33I'm glad you're going to be.
00:38:47Rob.
00:38:50Rob, you did come back.
00:39:00Oh, Helen Mary.
00:39:03You made a bad bargain when you took me for husband.
00:39:07Don't say that, Rob.
00:39:09If I had known all this was in store for me,
00:39:11I am ten times worse,
00:39:14I'd still have married you.
00:39:20No sign of him yet, sir.
00:39:21You're sure he didn't slip past you in the dark?
00:39:23No, sir. I've had twenty men posted all night long.
00:39:30What are you going to do?
00:39:32I'll take the heather.
00:39:35You'll not go far away.
00:39:37No, I must look to my clan.
00:39:39If I don't keep an eye on those hot heads,
00:39:41they'll have themselves hanged within a twelve month.
00:39:45But if in the end I'm driven from these hills into the far north,
00:39:50I'll not leave without you.
00:39:52I'll be waiting.
00:39:59Open up!
00:40:01Open up!
00:40:12Where is Rob McGregor?
00:40:14I don't know.
00:40:17I give you my word my son is not here.
00:40:55Where is Rob McGregor?
00:40:57If he's a man.
00:40:57What if?
00:41:03You're ready.
00:41:04I'll be waiting for you.
00:41:04I'll be waiting for you.
00:41:04You're waiting for me.
00:41:04I'll be waiting for you.
00:41:04Where is Rob McGregor?
00:41:05You can see you?
00:41:05I'm waiting for you.
00:41:06No, he won't wait.
00:41:06What?
00:41:07How man?
00:41:11How am I going to keep the boy?
00:41:15Oh, my God.
00:41:46Oh, my God.
00:42:12Oh, my God.
00:42:13Oh, my God.
00:42:13Oh, my God.
00:42:17Oh, my God.
00:42:22Oh, my God.
00:42:41Duckelman throws his entitle to his rent money, but he's no right to the double tax.
00:42:47No right.
00:42:58I want my receipt, too.
00:43:02And what do you call yourself?
00:43:04My name is Dougal, my name is Dougal McGregor.
00:43:06There is no such name as McGregor.
00:43:08Put him down as Macalester and be done with it.
00:43:26There will be no such name as Macalester, there will be none of that in my house.
00:43:28This is the inn of the inn of the inn of the inn of Hamish Macpherson.
00:43:31Why, you...
00:43:32Thorkell!
00:43:36So it's your inn?
00:43:38Yes.
00:43:39And where's the charter for the land you built it on?
00:43:49And where's the charter for the land you built it on?
00:43:58And we'll take you off to Stirling and leave your crofts forfeit.
00:44:03Now, maybe you'll listen to me.
00:44:07This is the quarter rent you paid to the Duke of Montrose.
00:44:09The same as it always is.
00:44:12Aye.
00:44:14But this one grows and grows.
00:44:17Next quarter it'll be doubled, then doubled again until it grows so great you have to sell
00:44:23your livestock and your farm gear and your land itself to keep the bag full unless you
00:44:30wish to claim it now.
00:44:31The whole sum will be posted as a reward for the man who leads us to rob Roy McGregor.
00:44:42I'll claim it.
00:44:46Take their weapons.
00:44:49Tougal, give it to Callum.
00:44:51Throw them in the lock.
00:44:53Aye.
00:45:03Give every man back what is due.
00:45:06Aye.
00:45:08As for you, you poor, cowardly, walking act of Parliament, go and tell your master this.
00:45:14My men have laid down their arms.
00:45:17They obey your laws because I told them to, and that command they still must keep.
00:45:23As for me, you may take me if you can, but leave my men alone.
00:45:30For any levy you may plague them with hereafter, I'll take double the amount from Montrose's
00:45:34own granary and from his cattle herds.
00:45:37If you burn out our McGregor Crofts and Steddings, I'll burn yours.
00:45:41If you kill my men, I'll kill you, Killian.
00:45:53Time after time you let the red McGregor slip through your fingers.
00:45:57Yes.
00:45:58And that's not all.
00:46:00On the 20th day of this month, to punish Dougal McGregor for false information, you stripped
00:46:06his Croft of its farm gear.
00:46:09Is that not so?
00:46:11True, Your Grace.
00:46:12And on the 21st, ten of my finest cattle disappeared.
00:46:18You further report that Fencibles courted in McGregor houses are waylaid and beaten by an unknown
00:46:26hand.
00:46:29An unknown hand, you witless dolt.
00:46:33Already you have made me the laughing stock of Edinburgh and Stirling.
00:46:36Now London is asking questions.
00:46:38Mr. Walpole himself.
00:46:41We've done our best, my lord, but I need more men.
00:46:44You have all my fensible troops now, save only my personal guards.
00:46:48How many do you need to capture one man?
00:46:52He's more than one man, Your Grace.
00:46:55The plowman on the hill is Rob McGregor.
00:46:58The man who carries the water from the spring is Rob McGregor.
00:47:01The boatman on the loch is Rob McGregor.
00:47:03And even the wee lad who fetches in the cows.
00:47:07As for the women, the soul of honour.
00:47:12Her ladyship of Glenguile.
00:47:14Her swore herself with such conviction that the devil himself would have believed her.
00:47:18And all the time she was hiding her son in the house.
00:47:22Then bring her in.
00:47:26We'll show them what our courts can do to those who harbour her prescribed
00:47:30outlaw.
00:47:31A desperate measure, Your Grace.
00:47:33It may make the outlaw desperate, too.
00:47:36Aye, and it may bring the whole clan about her ears.
00:47:38We'll sorely need the back of the redcoats.
00:47:42Very well.
00:47:43If Colonel Carpenter can spare us the soldiers,
00:47:46we'll re-garrison the old fort at Inversnade.
00:48:04Oh, wait!
00:48:11Oh, I'll be right!
00:48:15Go, I'll be right up!
00:48:16Oh, boy!
00:48:16Oh boy!
00:48:17No!
00:48:21You're right!
00:48:22I'll be right up!
00:48:25Look at this man.
00:48:25Oh, boy!
00:48:52You have no right to strip my house.
00:48:54For harboring an outlaw, your chattels are forfeit to the crown.
00:48:58As for you, my fine lady, we're taking you to Stirling.
00:49:03She did not break your law. She did not know her son was in the house.
00:49:07Tarko!
00:49:09Get rid of the girl.
00:49:15You slinking coward, leave the girl alone.
00:49:35Maltese!
00:49:53Maltese!
00:50:12Are you all right, mother?
00:50:13Yes. Here's Rob.
00:50:16Get down.
00:50:46Tarkoel!
00:50:50Tarkoel!
00:51:17She can't endure the smoke much longer.
00:51:22McGregor!
00:51:25Come out, McGregor!
00:51:27We'll spare you women if you'll give yourself up.
00:51:59Come out, McGregor!
00:52:00Come out, McGregor!
00:52:12Bring her out, Helen Mary.
00:52:29Come out, McGregor.
00:52:30Oh, my God.
00:52:31Go ahead, McGregor!
00:52:50Get out of the way!
00:52:51Willie, fetch Rob.
00:53:32What is the drug?
00:53:34I must look to my mother. Dougal, see that the fort is surrounded.
00:53:38Don't let one of them show his head outside.
00:53:41We'll keep them in siege until they starve or surrender.
00:53:45Bye.
00:53:49Robbie.
00:53:51He's coming, Mother.
00:53:54He mustn't fight with the soldiers.
00:53:59You must stop him, Helen Miri.
00:54:04Yes, Mother.
00:54:06There must be no more killing.
00:54:09It's so easy to set the heather on fire.
00:54:14And so hard to put it out.
00:54:39Hey.
00:55:32I have come to honor my kins, woman.
00:55:35You honor us all, my lord.
00:55:37Your mother was a great lady.
00:55:39God rest and bless her.
00:55:54McGregor, this time there'll be no escape.
00:55:59You barbarian, you crude, unfeeling fool, get you gun.
00:56:03Take them both.
00:56:05Krochen!
00:56:06Shluch hachugugugubra!
00:56:18So, your Campbells have joined the McGregor's.
00:56:22Mr. Walpole shall hear of this.
00:56:24Still threatening me with London.
00:56:26Then I'll tell you something about our king's minister you may not know.
00:56:31Mr. Walpole buys many men like you.
00:56:34Aye, and sells them too when they no longer please him.
00:56:36So, get back south and lick his boots while yet you may.
00:57:03I am the resurrection and the life, saith the lord.
00:57:06He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
00:57:20Fare ye well, my lord.
00:57:21We, McGregor, stand in debt to you.
00:57:23The Highlands would be in your debt, were you to lift the siege from Inversnade Fort.
00:57:27And let my mother's murderers go free?
00:57:30No.
00:57:31We tried to have peace, my lord.
00:57:33And when they denied us amnesty, we still tried to keep their laws.
00:57:36But now we know that they'd ravage and burn and butcher us all if we laid down our arms again.
00:57:42Not if I could have you included in the general amnesty.
00:57:45I have lost office.
00:57:46I have lost the ear of Mr. Walpole.
00:57:49But as a knight of the garter, I still may go to the king.
00:57:52You have concerned yourself too much with our quarrel already.
00:57:56The peace of the Highlands concerns us all.
00:57:58Will you not try once more to let reason prevail?
00:58:01I will not give a promise I may not be able to keep.
00:58:04But again, my thanks.
00:58:10Helen Mary, I beg you to restrain him.
00:58:13He may listen to you.
00:58:16I'll do all I can.
00:58:29You must let the soldiers go, Rob, and give Argyle a chance to make peace.
00:58:34And be murdered for it?
00:58:36I'd rather be shot for a wolf than a sheep.
00:58:39Maybe you must humble your pride for the sake of the rest.
00:58:44It's so easy to set the heather on fire.
00:58:48It's so hard to put it out.
00:58:51Empty words, Helen Mary.
00:58:54They're not mine, Rob.
00:58:58Those were the last words spoken by your mother.
00:59:16Sir, the MacGregor himself has come under a flag of truce.
00:59:20He is offering us terms.
00:59:21Offering us terms?
00:59:23You go back and tell him.
00:59:24I pray you, sir.
00:59:26Let me give him his answer.
00:59:37MacGregor!
00:59:45Well, is it peace or war?
00:59:55Is it bad, Rob?
00:59:57No.
00:59:57No, Rob.
00:59:59Do we beg for mercy without bonnets in our hands?
01:00:02No.
01:00:03It's war.
01:00:15No boys!
01:00:17No boys, Dr. Gent!
01:00:18No,ologies, boys!
01:00:20Bye!
01:00:22Madame!
01:00:23Stop!
01:00:24Here you are, lady.
01:00:26A new ballad about Ron Roy, all for one penny.
01:00:31The Duke's men rode from Stirling and up to Invers Ned...
01:00:34to put one hundred pound on Rob McGregor's head.
01:00:38The gold it went a vagin', so did the Duke as well.
01:00:41For in walked Bole McGregor and claimed it for himself.
01:00:45Here it is, it's true history, thank you, lady.
01:00:48True history as I'm a Christian woman.
01:00:53Forgive me, fellow, this is my fault.
01:00:55Sir, you're a footful fellow. Your manners are in your elbows.
01:01:06Mr. Millingsley? The Highland Rogue, if you please.
01:01:12Certainly, Countess.
01:01:14I am deeply honoured by His Majesty's patronage.
01:01:20This cabinet meeting has been called, gentlemen...
01:01:23to consider the very dangerous state of affairs...
01:01:26existing in the Scottish Highlands.
01:01:29Our Secretary of State for Scotland...
01:01:32brings with him the disturbing intelligence...
01:01:35that the clan McGregor, led by their outlawed chieftain, Rob Roy...
01:01:39has openly revolted and besieged the King's fort at Invers Ned.
01:01:44We have every reason to believe that the other clans will join them...
01:01:49in a full-scale uprising.
01:01:52The other clans appear to be quite content with the King's amnesty?
01:01:55Miload Marlborough, the amnesty saved their hides...
01:01:59but their loyalty to the King is only skin deep.
01:02:03Scratch a Highlander, and you'll find a rebel underneath.
01:02:07Why doesn't Colonel Carpenter march a force up to relieve the fort?
01:02:11Because, sir, it might seriously weaken his garrison at Stirling...
01:02:15and in the face of a general revolt.
01:02:18What general revolt?
01:02:23The clans rose in 48, and in 78, and in 93...
01:02:29and they tried it again only a few short months ago.
01:02:34All they've ever needed to touch them off is one troublemaker.
01:02:40Now they have McGregor.
01:02:42Tempest in a teapot!
01:02:44Can be more serious than you think, Marlborough.
01:02:47And we haven't the time for bickering.
01:02:49Has His Majesty been made aware of the situation?
01:02:52It was the King himself who requested us to sift the facts...
01:02:56and present our recommendations.
01:02:58His Majesty is even now in the throne room...
01:03:01in conducting his own unique study of the Highland situation.
01:03:05And when the coachman had been laid low...
01:03:13and Montrose himself was sitting in the dust of the road...
01:03:22Rob Roy lifted the wig of the Duke of Montrose...
01:03:28and... and... and...
01:03:33Tweaked!
01:03:36What is this word?
01:03:38Tweaked.
01:03:39Tweaked his nose.
01:03:45Tweaked?
01:03:46Yep.
01:03:51Tweaked his nose?
01:03:57Tweaked?
01:03:59Yep.
01:04:02Tweaked his nose?
01:04:04Argyle earnestly requests an audience with His Majesty.
01:04:08Der Herzog von Argyle ist hier und wĆ¼nscht euch zu sprechen.
01:04:12Argyle?
01:04:15Ruf ihn herein.
01:04:18His Majesty will receive him.
01:04:21Your Grace?
01:04:24Is Grace the Duke of Argyle?
01:04:30Does the Duke not realize that he is no longer an accepted person at court?
01:04:33I do indeed.
01:04:34Nor have I intruded without great cause.
01:04:37But I beg of you to explain to His Majesty...
01:04:39that when the safety of the realm is in danger...
01:04:40an honest man will go straight to his King.
01:04:43Then how many troops do you propose to send to the Highlands?
01:04:46I believe 6,000 would be adequate.
01:04:496,000?
01:04:51To relieve one small fort?
01:04:54My Lord Marlborough,
01:04:55it is not for me to expound the philosophy of war...
01:04:58to the hero of Blenheim and the first soldier of Europe.
01:05:02But I must humbly propose that we follow your military examples...
01:05:06and strike a ruthless and crushing blow at the head and front of the trouble.
01:05:11Well... well...
01:05:13I suppose if the Secretary is going to cite my own campaigns against me...
01:05:18I...
01:05:19He's right, Marlborough.
01:05:20It's reason and good sense.
01:05:22Perfectly sound.
01:05:23I agree, my Lord.
01:05:25I have never questioned the Secretary's wisdom.
01:05:28My only concern is where I'll find the money for the troops.
01:05:32All you can think about, Walpole, is money, money, money.
01:05:36I'll never mention the word again, sir...
01:05:39if you'll show me a way to get along without it.
01:05:44I will.
01:05:45I will.
01:05:46Count Rose, here I am.
01:06:05Majesty, I am astounded to find his grace of our guile admitted to the royal presence.
01:06:10He more than any other has been responsible for thwarting our secretary's attempt to capture the outlaw McGregor.
01:06:16That I am proud to admit.
01:06:20Will the Countess please explain to His Majesty that this brave gentleman tried to surprise Rob Roy McGregor at his
01:06:27mother's funeral?
01:06:29We in the Highlands respect our dead.
01:06:34My liege, Lord.
01:06:36Mr Walpole will tell you that the Cabinet has this day recommended the immediate dispatch of 6,000 soldiers to
01:06:43bring the Highlands under control.
01:06:44Not one would be needed were it not for this man.
01:06:48They are not needed now.
01:06:50Send bayonets into our mountains and they'll be matched with murdering knives.
01:06:55But if you will send me, alone and unarmed, to speak the words a Highlander can understand,
01:07:00I will bring Rob Roy McGregor back with me to London.
01:07:03Oh, preposterous!
01:07:05The only thing a Highlander can understand is...
01:07:08Genug!
01:07:09My state, Mr Walpole is the opinion that a army of 6,000 men should be sent to Scotland.
01:07:15The Prince of Argyle said that he could bring McGregor alone to London.
01:07:22McGregor?
01:07:24Here in London?
01:07:26Yes.
01:07:31Very good.
01:07:34Here it goes.
01:07:35Here it goes.
01:08:32I'll get you back to the inn.
01:08:33Oh, Rob, you cannot do it.
01:08:34You keep out of this.
01:08:36I tried to make peace.
01:08:38I did as you asked, Helen Mary.
01:08:40As your mother asked?
01:08:42Aye, and both of you wrong.
01:08:44I'll trust no man again unless he be kinsman to me,
01:08:47nor listen to any woman.
01:08:49And no one will stop me blowing those cutthroats out of the highlands.
01:08:56Let's go.
01:09:35Let's go.
01:10:01Let's go.
01:10:35Let's go.
01:10:43Let's go.
01:10:43Let's go.
01:11:14Let's go.
01:11:15Let's go.
01:11:30Let's go.
01:11:30Let's go.
01:11:40Let's go.
01:11:41Let's go.
01:11:42Let's go.
01:11:43Let's go.
01:11:44Let's go.
01:11:54Let's go.
01:11:54Let's go.
01:12:05I'm back, McGregor.
01:12:08Let's go.
01:12:09Order your men out of the fort.
01:12:11Let's go.
01:12:12Let's go.
01:12:13Let's go.
01:12:42Let's go.
01:13:00Let's go.
01:13:05Let's go.
01:13:19Let's go.
01:13:24Let's go.
01:13:26Let's go.
01:13:28Let's go.
01:13:48Let's go.
01:13:54Let's go.
01:14:08Let's go.
01:14:13Let's go.
01:14:19Let's go.
01:14:23Let's go.
01:14:42Let's go.
01:14:45Let's go.
01:14:52Let's go.
01:15:14Let's go.
01:15:17Let's go.
01:15:18Let's go.
01:15:19Let's go.
01:15:41My son.
01:15:44Let's go.
01:15:46Let's go.
01:15:46Let's a break.
01:15:47Let's go.
01:15:48Tony.
01:15:49Do you mean?
01:15:49Oh, my God.
01:16:40His Majesty awaits you.
01:16:42I'll look.
01:17:15I have come to your Majesty because you sent the Duke of Argyle to me.
01:17:19I trust him and ask his pardon.
01:17:25From your Majesty, I ask no favor but one.
01:17:29I beg of you, grant amnesty to my clan.
01:17:34As for me, you may do what you will.
01:17:46I have heard.
01:17:50I hear many things.
01:18:00I hear you capture my soldiers and take my fort.
01:18:04You bring disgrace upon my clan and take my name away from me.
01:18:08I pray, Your Majesty, let me remove this insolence.
01:18:12The King does not fear the bold enemy.
01:18:16The King fears only the self-seeking friend.
01:18:24I give you back your sword and your name, Rob Roy MacGregor.
01:18:40You are a great rogue.
01:18:45And you, sire, are a great king.
01:18:52Oh, it must have been a wonderful sight, Hugh.
01:18:54And what happened then?
01:18:55Right into the palace we went.
01:18:57And there, in the great hall, sitting all alone with his hat on his head, was King Geordie,
01:19:05glowering out of a great wig.
01:19:07Oh, I wish I could have seen him.
01:19:09Ah, and what was he like?
01:19:12He was like her ladyship's Galloway nag when he's just going to take a bite out of you.
01:19:19And you should have seen the lords and jukes with their clipped docked breeches
01:19:23and wee bodkins hanging about their knees to trip them up
01:19:27and had a man's sword among them.
01:19:29And right through all the courtiers, bending and bowing like barley in the wind,
01:19:35marches Rob, as proud and as straight as an evergreen pine.
01:19:41And he says to the King, he says,
01:19:43Miss Geordie, I've come to get my name back and I'll take my pardon now.
01:19:47Aye, the King liked the look of Rob.
01:19:50Aye.
01:19:50And the King said, McGregory said,
01:19:52how would you like to be my Secretary of State for Scotland?
01:19:56And Rob said, I'd do it, Geordie,
01:19:58but I've got to go home now and look after my great herds of cattle.
01:20:02Give the post back to her guile.
01:20:04Do you hear that, Helen, Mary?
01:20:06I heard.
01:20:09When do you think he'll be back?
01:20:10Oh, you needn't be looking for him yet, lassie.
01:20:13The way they were wining and dining him, he won't be back for a week.
01:20:16And what were the fine ladies like?
01:20:19They were covered with jewels all over.
01:20:22Great red heathen carbuncle stones on their fingers.
01:20:26And diamonds as big as ducks' eggs hanging from their ears.
01:20:32Were the ladies very...
01:20:36Were their clothes very beautiful?
01:20:39Well, they had cocker nonnies and barbs of ribbons piled up on their heads.
01:20:46Oh, and golden combs.
01:20:48And they walked on wee clubbers with heels so high
01:20:52that a man had to carry them in his arm for fear they would fall over.
01:20:56Oh, there must have been a lovely sight.
01:20:58The painted hussies.
01:20:59They better not make sheep's eyes at our robbie.
01:21:01Oh, it's only natural when a man marches into a town after a battle
01:21:05swinging along to the scatel of the pipes
01:21:07that the ladies will look down from their balconies and windows
01:21:10especially if they...
01:21:12If he's a fine figure of a man
01:21:14with an eagle feather shining in his bonnet
01:21:16and his tartans flying.
01:21:17Oh, actually, it's dying.
01:21:19Oh, wait.
01:21:21Look, look what haars mean.
01:21:22Oh, he won.
01:21:30Let's go.
01:21:31Oh, come on.
01:21:50THE END
01:22:20THE END
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