I give this TV movie a low score only because the directing is the absolute worst directing in any movie I've ever seen. The story is the true story that Walter Scott write, which I tried to read but gave up because of the extreme prolixity and obfuscation of the writing. The story was very good, and deserves a better representation. The actors were professional actors, but they had to act in an amazingly amateurish production. I suppose cost may have been the limiting factor that led to such an amateurish undertaking, although I can't believe the director would ever get another job directing because he put up with this type of production.
