Partly due to rising costs on its animated films, Walt Disney branched out into making live action features in the 1950s, beginning with Treasure Island (1950). In common with several other American companies, Disney had blocked funds in the UK that couldn't be repatriated to the US, and making films in Britain was a useful way of using this money. For this reason, several of the 1950s Disney films have a decidedly British accent, including The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men , Rob Roy the Highland Rogue , Greyfriars Bobby and Kidnapped . Like Treasure Island , Kidnapped is based on a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story is set in the years following the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. After the death of his father, young David Balfour (James MacArthur) arrives with a letter of introduction to his supposedly well-to-do uncle (John Laurie). But the uncle's claim to the ancestral home is a bit shaky, so he would rather be rid of David who, unbeknown to him, has