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''Rob Roy'' is a 1995 adventure film directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Liam Neeson stars as Rob Roy MacGregor, an 18th-century Scottish clan chief who battles with an unscrupulous nobleman in the Scottish Highlands. Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Brian Cox, and Jason Flemyng also star. Roth was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the amoral aristocrat Archibald Cunningham. ==Plot summary== In Scotland, 1713, Rob Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) is the Chief of Clan MacGregor. By selling the Lowland gentry protection against cattle rustling, he barely manages to feed his people. Longing to alleviate their poverty, MacGregor borrows £1000 from James Graham, Marquess of Montrose (John Hurt), with the intent of buying and selling Highland cattle. Impoverished London aristocrat Archibald Cunningham (Tim Roth) has been sent to stay with Montrose, who is implied to be related to him. Cunningham's mother hopes that the cold Scottish climate will, "cool the fever in his blood". Heavily in debt, Cunningham learns about the loan from Montrose's factor, Killearn (Brian Cox), who has been charged with looking after him. Killearn first converts the credit to cash without the knowledge of Montrose or MacGregor. Alan MacDonald (Eric Stoltz), MacGregor's most trusted retainer, arrives and suspicious of Killearn, tells him that cash was not what was agreed. The factor tells MacDonald that Montrose ordered it. On his way home, MacDonald is ambushed and murdered by Cunningham, who steals the money and sinks MacDonald's corpse in Loch Lomond. Unable to pay his loan, MacGregor approaches Montrose and asks for time to find MacDonald and the money. Montrose promises to wipe the loan off his books, but only if MacGregor will testify falsely that John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (Andrew Keir), Montrose's main rival, is a Jacobite. Considering this dishonorable, MacGregor refuses and an enraged Montrose vows to imprison him in the Tolbooth until the debt is paid. Instead, MacGregor briefly takes Cunningham hostage and flees. Seething with hatred, Montrose seizes MacGregor's land as collateral, declares him an outlaw, and orders Cunningham to bring him in "broken, but alive." While MacGregor is in hiding, Cunningham arrives at his croft with a posse of redcoats. As the soldiers slaughter MacGregor's cattle herds and burn his croft, Cunningham brutally rapes MacGregor's wife Mary (Jessica Lange). When Mary tells Cunningham that her husband will come after him, she is horrified tto realize that Cunningham is counting on it. As the soldiers leave, Alasdair, MacGregor's brother, arrives and realizes that Mary has just been raped. Alasdair vows revenge but Mary swears him to secrecy. When he returns, Cunningham tells Montrose that he has delivered such an insult to MacGregor's "Highland honor" that he will soon throw caution to the wind. Unaware that his wife has been assaulted, MacGregor refuses to permit his outraged Clan to assassinate Montrose. Instead, he decrees, "The best place to hurt the Marquess is in his purse. Steal his cattle, rob his rents." Meanwhile, Betty (Vicki Masson), a maidservant at Montrose's estate, has become pregnant with Cunningham's child. When Killearn tells Montrose, Betty is dismissed from service. She approaches Cunningham, telling him that she loves him. An unmoved Cunningham responds by calling love a dunghill that he has often climbed to obtain sex. With nowhere else to go, a heartbroken Betty seeks protection from Rob and Mary MacGregor. Having overheard Killearn and Cunningham's plotting, she tells Mary who really stole the money. Mary plans to help Betty carry her child to full term, but she hangs herself in a barn at the MacGregor home. Determined to clear his name, MacGregor abducts Killearn and imprisons him on Factor's Island in order to prove Betty's story. Mary enters Killearn's cell and tells the factor that his life will be spared if he testifies against Cunningham. Instead, Killearn demands that Mary help him escape or he will tell her husband about her rape and possible pregnancy by Cunningham. Enraged, Mary draws a sgian dubh and stabs Killearn in the neck. The wounded factor flees the cell and to the shore, where he attempts to wash out his wound but is drowned by Alasdair, who believes him to have raped Mary, too. When MacGregor is informed, he instructs Alasdair to sink Killearn's body in the loch. Meanwhile, Montrose complains to Cunningham that the MacGregor Clan's thefts of his cattle and rents are threatening to impoverish him. Montrose tells Cunningham that he knows who stole the money, but doesn't care. Montrose demands that Cunningham ensure that he no longer "be mocked" and promises him carte blanche. In response, Cunningham and the redcoats begin to systematically murder all the people of Clan MacGregor. Although MacGregor refuses to take the bait, Alasdair attempts to snipe Cunningham, but misses. As redcoats swarm their hiding place, Alasdair is mortally wounded, and, with his dying breath, tells MacGregor about Cunningham's violation of Mary. Shortly after MacGregor is captured by the redcoats. When they stand face to face, MacGregor accuses Cunningham of murder, robbery, and rape. Grinning sadistically, Cunningham says that he enjoyed Mary far more than the women who slept with him willingly. He also confirms that he stole the money and murdered Alan MacDonald. Meanwhile, Mary gains an audience with the Duke of Argyll and exposes Montrose's plans to frame him. Deeply moved by MacGregor's integrity, he grants the whole family asylum at Glen Shira, on his estates. When MacGregor is brought before Montrose, MacGregor accuses Cunningham of stealing the money and murdering MacDonald. Despite knowing the truth, Montrose orders MacGregor to be summarily executed by hanging from a bridge. At the last second, MacGregor loops the rope binding his hands around Cunningham's throat, and jumps off the bridge. To save Cunningham, Montrose orders the rope cut. MacGregor is chased downstream by the redcoats, but evades them by hiding inside a cow's corpse. Following his escape, MacGregor arrives at Glen Shira, where Mary is living with their two sons. He reproaches her for not telling him immediately of her rape. She apologizes, but says that she did so because she could not bear the thought of losing him. She further says that she can endure the trauma as long as her family is together. MacGregor persuades Argyll to arrange a duel between him and Cunningham, who gleefully accepts. Before leaving, MacGregor instructs Mary that if he fails to return, she should name the child for him if a boy, and for herself if a girl. Before the duel, the Duke tells Montrose that he will accept only the following wager: if MacGregor lives his debts will be forgiven. If he dies, the Duke will pay his bill. Cunningham and MacGregor vow that no quarter will be asked or given. Cunningham, armed with a smallsword, sadistically takes MacGregor apart cut by cut. MacGregor appears to swiftly exhaust himself by swinging his heavy broadsword. At last he appears to be at Cunningham's mercy. As a gloating Montrose signals Cunningham to finish him, MacGregor grabs his enemy's swordpoint with his left hand. As Cunningham frantically struggles to free his blade, MacGregor's right hand seizes his fallen broadsword and cleaves Cunningham's torso almost in half. With his honor restored, MacGregor returns to Glen Shira and vows that he will never leave his family again. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rob Roy (1995 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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