Plunkett And Macleane [DVD]

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His brother Archibald, the minister and translator, though he was revolted and heartbroken by his brother's crimes and had often warned him of the consequences of his dissolute behaviour, wrote a letter from Utrecht to intercede with the court for mercy for his brother, and also wrote to James himself and to Dr Allen, the minister who attended him.

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a b Print, "An Exact Representation of Maclaine the Highwayman Robbing Lord Eglington" (published 13 August 1750), with a text; see British Museum Accession Number 1894,0611. After his death his body was dissected and his skeleton was suspended for display in a niche in the Surgeons' Hall in London. Afterwards, to prove himself, Maclaine alone held up a gentleman on horseback in Hyde Park and relieved him of his money and his watch.There are times early in "Plunkett and Macleane" when there are so many mysterious and opaque objects cluttering the screen that, as we try to peer around them, we wonder if the MPAA warmed up on this movie before obscuring the naughty bits in " Eyes Wide Shut. This was printed in A Complete History of James Maclean, the Gentleman Highwayman, who was executed at Tyburn on Wednesday, October 3, 1750, for a robbery on the highway (Charles Corbett, London 1750), Frontispiece. The pair become known as the Gentlemen Highwaymen, the chief justice is enraged that they have not been captured, and the oily Chance ( Ken Stott) is in charge of the chase. If there's one thing that annoys me in a movie (and there are many in this one), it's when the characters escape through a loophole in the cinematic technique.

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Between one and two o'clock in the morning of the same day, they held up the flying coach at Chiswick, between Turnham Green and Brentford, which was carrying six passengers on its way to Salisbury going westward out of London. When the judge asked him why he should not be sentenced, Maclaine, who had prepared a short speech expressing his contrition and pleading for mercy, was unable to say more than one or two words, "My lord, I cannot speak," and stood in silence. The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-Taker, and Jack Sheppard, House-Breaker (Viking, London 1997), pp.Trouble looms when Macleane is smitten by the beautiful Lady Rebecca Gibson ( Liv Tyler), who, wouldn't you know, is the niece of the Lord Chief Justice ( Michael Gambon).