# Rob Roy (1995 film)

Rob Roy is a 1995 film about a man in the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s who tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, he is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
    Directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Written by Alan Sharp.

## Archibald Cunningham

* Love is a dung hill, Betty, and I am but a cock that climbs upon it to crow.

## Mary MacGregor

* To these men, the truth is but a lie undiscovered.
* I love the bones of you, Robert McGregor, but you take too much to heart that canna' be helped.

## Dialogue

    Duncan MacGregor: Father, will the MacGregors ever be kings again?
    Rob Roy MacGregor: All men with honor are kings. But not all kings have honor.
    Duncan: What is honor?
    Rob Roy: Honor is what no man can give ya. And none can take away. Honor is a man's gift to himself.
    Duncan: Do women have it?
    Rob Roy: Women are the heart of honor. And we cherish and protect it in them. You must never mistreat a woman, or malign man. Or stand by and see another do so.
    Duncan: How do you know if you have it?
    Rob Roy: Never worry on the getting of it. It grows in you, and speaks to you. All you need do is listen.
    John Campbell, Duke of Argyll: So, Mr. Cunningham, what are these principal sins that distress your mother? Dice? Drink? Or are you a buggerer of boys?
    Archibald Cunningham: It is years, Your Grace, since I buggered a boy, and in my own defense I must add I thought him a girl at the moment of entry.
    Argyll: [laughs] Do you hear that, Will? Young Cunningham here was unable to tell arse from quim. What say you to that?
    Will Guthrie: I've heard that many Englishmen have that same difficulty.
    Rob Roy MacGregor: What passes for honor with me is likely enough the same as with Your Lordship. When my word is given, it is good.
    James Graham, Marquis of Montrose: Well, you are to be congratulated on such cheaply bought nobility.
    Archibald Cunningham: Think of yourself a scabbard, Mistress McGregor, and I the sword. And a fine fit you were, too.
    Mary MacGregor: I will think on you dead until my husband makes you so, and then I will think on you no more.
    Mary MacGregor: Robert, there is more. I am carrying a child and I do not know who is the father.
    Rob Roy MacGregor: Ach, Mary.
    Mary: I could not kill it, husband.
    Rob Roy: It's not the child that needs killing.
    [Argyll refuses Mary's initial pleas for help]
    Mary MacGregor: Your Grace, Robert finds himself in this position for taking Your Grace's part.
    John Campbell, Duke of Argyll: My part? What cause had he to do that? And in what manner?
    Mary: He refused to bear false witness against you, when the Marquis asked him to say that you were a Jacobite, to slander your name at court.
    Argyll: Montrose asked this of him?
    Mary: In remission of this debt. But Robert refused.
    Argyll: I did not know your husband bore me such goodwill.
    Mary: Indeed, Your Grace, I think he favors you no more than any other great man. "As wolves at lambing," that is his word for you all. Robert refused, not for Your Grace, but for his own honor, which he values above his own family, his kin and his clan, and for which I have oft chided him. But were he otherwise, he would not be Robert Roy MacGregor. Robert would not approve of my coming here to ask you for help, nor come himself if he were here. [stands] But I have no choice, unless I give him up entire to his enemies. And though I love his honor, it is but a moon-cast shadow to the love I bear him. By the grace of God, I have his child inside me and I will have a father for it.
    Argyll: You do your man no dishonor, Mary. Faith, he is a man much blessed by fortune.
    John Campbell, Duke of Argyll: You promised MacGregor amnesty from his debts if he would lay charges against me.
    James Graham, Marquis of Montrose: So! That is how he cozened you into giving him shelter.
    Argyll: Oh, I know the truth when I hear it.
    Montrose: Oh! And here was me, thinking that was God's gift alone.
    Argyll: Do not think that all sins go unpaid in this life, Montrose.
    Montrose: Well, I see one set soon to be paid for.
    James Graham, Marquis of Montrose: Will you not take my odds, Argyll? I give you five on the fop.
    John Campbell, Duke of Argyll: I will wager you but this: if MacGregor lives, you will acquit him of all he owes you.
    Montrose: [laughs] And if he loses?
    Argyll: I will pay his bill.
    Montrose: My factor will call upon Your Grace's factor.
    Rob Roy MacGregor: You should have told me, Mary.
    Mary MacGregor: Oh Robert, I should have but I could not. You were right.
    Rob Roy: No, you were right. I must have my own way too often. I should have packed my pride and given Montrose his way!
    Mary: No, Robert!
    Rob Roy: And all this has come on us. Craigrostan would still be ours, Alasdair and Coll would be alive...
    Mary: And wrong would have been done you!
    Rob Roy: And what about the wrong done you? Wrong past bearing.
    Mary: No, not past bearing! Not past bearing. Not if I have my Robert, and he has himself. And you would not, not if you had done a lesser man's bidding. "Honor is the gift a man gives himself." You told our boys that. Would you have stolen from yourself that which makes you Robert Roy MacGregor?
    Archibald Cunningham: What did you do with that bag of guts Killearn? Vex me not, McGregor, or I shall have you dragged a while. And I am a man of my word.
    Rob Roy MacGregor: You're a thief, a murderer and a violator of women.
    Cunningham: Aah... I had hoped you'd come to me long since on that score.
    Rob Roy: If I had known earlier you would have been dead sooner.
    Cunningham: I will tell you something, to take with you. Your wife was far sweeter forced than many are willing. And truth put to it, I think not all of her objected...
    Rob Roy MacGregor: Did you boys know there's going to be a new addition to the family?
    Duncan MacGregor: Is it inside you?
    Mary MacGregor: Yes.
    Duncan: How does it get out?
    Rob Roy: Same road it got in.
    Referee: You are here on a matter of honor. I am here to see that you settle it honorably. There will be no back-stabbing. You will not throw your blades, nor will you use weapons other than those agreed. If quarter should be asked—
    Rob Roy MacGregor: No quarter will be asked.
    Archibald Cunningham: Or given.

## Cast

* Liam Neeson - Robert Roy MacGregor
* Jessica Lange - Mary MacGregor
* John Hurt - James Graham, 4th Marquess of Montrose
* Tim Roth - Archibald Cunningham
* Eric Stoltz - Alan MacDonald
* Andrew Keir - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
* Brian Cox - Killearn
* Brian McCardie - Alasdair MacGregor
* Gilbert Martin - Will Guthrie
* Jason Flemyng - Gregor
* Ewan Stewart - Coll
* David Hayman - Tam Sibbalt
* Shirley Henderson - Morag

## External links

* Rob Roy quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Rob Roy at Rotten Tomatoes
* Rob Roy at Allmovie
* Rob Roy at Mojo