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BONNIE SCOTLAND

By: Kenji

I’ve included some non-indigenous Scottish set films, but can’t bring myself to include Mel Gibson and Braveheart, sorry; anyway, that’s really a Hollywood film, filmed in Ireland, with Australian star playing someone of Welsh ancestry. And i’m not too keen on Brigadoon. As well as the films listed Scotland has given us stars Sean Connery, Ewan McGregor, Alastair Sim, Deborah Kerr, and novelists Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson whose books have been filmed not only on Scottish subjects. Norman McLaren and Alexander Mackendrick have been among the directors who’ve made notable films in North America. Bill Douglas’ Comrades is a masterpiece about the Tolpuddle Martyrs, set in Dorset in England, and Australia


The Wicker Man

Essentials not on the site:

Small Faces
Another Time, Another Place
Brothers


My Childhood (Bill Douglas)- one of the cinematic treasures of the British isles, a poetic sensitivity chiselled out of granite.

See also Ozufan’s list Scotland on Film. Other lists on the Celtic countries of the British/Irish Isles: The Emerald Isle, The Welsh Connection

Taking a leaf from the book of Ozufan, a true Scot and no doubt a great tosser of the caber:

The eerie call of the loon, the dark waters of Loch Lomond, the enticing wild redhead called Fiona, the auld empty barn, the wee sleekit beastie, the phantom flasher of Inverness (yes it’s true what a Scotsman has under his kilt!), the Highland jig, the swoop of the Osprey, the swirl of the sprorran, the leap of the haggis, the storms over the isles of Rum, Eigg and Muck, the downing of the finest whisky at Hogmanay, hooray for Rabbie Burns, the burn and the 19th hole at St Andrews, Nessie, Archie Gemmill’s world cup goal and the deep fried battered Mars Bar… and woe betide the unwary Sassenach traveller.

“These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.” (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Loch Ness Monster’s Song
Sssnnnwhuffffll?
Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl.
Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl –
gm grawwwww grf grawf awfgm graw gm.
Hovoplodok – doplodovok – plovodokot – doplodokosh?
Splgraw fok fok splgrafhatchgabrlgabrl fok splfok!
Zgra kra gka fok!
Grof grawff gahf?
Gombl mbl bl –
blm plm,
blm plm,
blm plm,
blp

 

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30Mar12

http://mubi.com/films/loch-ness

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Gary Phillips

20Jun11

Pleased to see Carry On Up The Khyber on here! Carry On films are woefully absent from this site.

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    Kenji

    20Jun11

    Carry on up the Khyber, Carry on Doctor and Carry on Cleo were the best, imo- all in mid to late 60s, then they got generally trashier and cruder with less wit and fun. Carry on up the Khyber is on my Welsh Connection list too, i think, as it was filmed in Wales (as the Khyber pass or similar)

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Kenji

26Jun10

ah thanks, anything you can do

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