“An incident in the life of Rob Roy MacGregor”

Fickle Fortune (1930)

Name: Fickle Fortune
Director: J. Martin Mackay Jr.
Released: 1930-12-31
Duration: 15 min
Cast: Margaret Peat, John M. White, A.S. Henderson, A.S. Henderson, Gladys White

December 31, 193015mEN

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Overview

Dramatised film of an incident in the life of Rob Roy MacGregor, set in the Trossachs. Entered in the Scottish Amateur Film Festival 1933. Roy Roy has been outlawed and is in hiding in the Trossachs. His band is suprised by a party of redcoats. Rob Roy escapes and the outlaws get away taking a red coat officer prisoner. The redcoat is freed by one of the clanswomen who is his lover. The outlaws discover her treachery and plan to drown her but Rob Roy arrives and saves her from her fate.

Director

J. Martin Mackay Jr.

Writer

D. E. Stevenson