The Secret of St. Ives

I won't rate the film here, because I did not see it. In fact, until I noticed it's title and checked, I was surprised that a movie based on ST.

Shown on Turner Classics in May 2009, this period piece opens with a narrator describing Frenchman Anatole de Keroual and his compatriots imprisoned in a British castle in Edinburg. They are digging an escape tunnel so that they can rejoin Napoleon's army.

This story is from an unfinished manuscript by Robert Louis Stevenson that was finished by another author after his death. It concerns the adventures of a Frenchman, the Viscount of St.