he was generally judged a success. The Highland landscape descriptions and striking individual scenes also attracted much praise. Most reviewers found the story rather weak, as usual with this author, with improbable coincidences and a hurried conclusion. Adaptations Although there have been several heavily fictionalised feature films featuring a heroic Robert Roy MacGregor over the years, none of them to date has been directly adapted from Walter Scott's novel, in which MacGregor plays a lesser role than Osbaldistone. For example, although a 1995 film is based on the same eponymous hero, Rob Roy, starring Liam Neeson, Tim Roth, and Jessica Lange, it has no other connection with the novel. The same is true of the 1953 film Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue. Beverages A brand of blended whisky, Bailie Nicol Jarvie, is named after a character from the book. The Rob Roy cocktail is similar to a Manhattan cocktail. It first appeared in New York City around 1890. References External links Page on Rob Roy at the Walter Scott Digital Archive 1817 British novels British novels adapted into films Novels by Walter Scott Novels set in Scotland Novels set in Northumberland Historical novels Scottish novels Novels set in the 1710s Scottish bildungsromans Cultural depictions of Rob Roy MacGregor Waverley Novels