National Review, May 15th, 1995
From a leap into the future, to a dive into the past: the 134- minute Rob Roy is very much an updated (and not all that much updated) Errol Flynn picture. Well, yes, there is a graphic rape scene and some frolicsome conjugal groping under the kilt. Otherwise, you keep expecting Olivia de Havilland and Basil Rathbone to pop up any moment. They don't, of course, but their equivalents certainly do.
Obviously, any subject that was good enough for a novel by Sir Walter Scott is good enough for the movies; why so few of his fictions have been filmed remains a mystery. Nor is this movie based on h...
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