Trouble in the Glen – 1954 | 91mins | Comedy | Colour

Plot Synopsis

Thin Herbert Wilcox directed comedy about the conflicts unwittingly sparked in the sleepy Scottish village of Glen Eachen by two foreign newcomers. One is an American airman, Major Lance Lansing (Forrest Tucker), who is searching for the daughter of his wartime marriage. The other, Sandy Menzies (Orson Welles), has come to claim his inheritance and install himself as a laird of the glen. He quickly alienates the locals by shutting the gates and closing down the road that runs through his estate. Violence threatens to erupt when Menzies evicts some poaching tinkers from his land, and upsets a crippled girl, Alguin (Margaret McCourt). The displaced tinker, Parlan (Victor McLaglen), and son Malcolm (John McCallum), round up a gang of thugs to lay siege on Menzies castle, burning an effigy and stealing his prize cow. Menzies escalates the war by importing a gang of Glaswegian thugs. Hoping to make peace between the laird and the locals is Major Lansing, who falls in love with Marissa (Margaret Lockwood), Menzies daughter.