John Macnab
Adaptation of John Buchan's novel, set in the 1920s, about three members of the English establishment who seek excitement by poaching on the estates of Scottish landowners.
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0% doneA group rich aristocrats and bankers are bored with finding life too easy. Archie Roylance puts forward the idea of a challenge, by going to Scotland to poach a stag or salmon. They send landowners a challenge using the alias John McNab.
Archie Roylance is caught with a stag by Janet Raden but excepts defeat and leaves. When Professor Bandicott finds viking treasure, Sir Edward Leithen sneaks out to bag a salmon. The Gillies catch him but young Benji takes the salmon home.
Colonel Raden and his daughters make a surprise visit and expose the group has "John McNab". However when the Colonel learns Lord Claybody has employed a thousand navvies stop anybody getting in and out of his forest he agrees to help.
