The Master of Ballantrae is a 1953 British Technicolor adventure film starring Errol Flynn and Roger Livesey.

Their retainer, MacKellar (Mervyn Johns), recommends that one brother join the uprising while the other remains loyal to King George II, so that whichever side wins, the family's status and estate will be preserved.

Jamie insists on tossing a coin for the privilege and wins, despite the opposition of his fiancée, Lady Alison (Beatrice Campbell).

Evading British soldiers, Jamie falls in with an Irish adventurer, Colonel Francis Burke (Roger Livesey).

When Jamie's commoner mistress, Jessie Brown (Yvonne Furneaux), sees him kissing Lady Alison, she betrays him to the English.

When they reach the port of Tortugas Bay, they see a rich Spanish galleon captured by fellow buccaneer Captain Mendoza (Charles Goldner).

Jamie returns to the family estate, rich with pirate treasure, to find a celebration in progress for Henry's betrothal to Alison.

The purchase was made with funds "frozen" by the British government i.e. money earned by Warners in Britain which they could not take out of the country.

[11] The film was shot in Great Britain in 1952 from June 25 through to August, with location work in Cornwall and the Scottish Highlands with the pirate sequences done in Palermo in Sicily.

[15] Fencing champion Sgt Robert Anderson from the (British) Royal Marines went on leave to participate in the film.