madhouse bill

one of the top films from the first post i think is geordie a hart warming movie with lots of Scotland in the background locks glens and highlands i love it

cooleyn

One of the funniest depictions of Scotland I ever saw was an old B&W comedy starring (I think) Max Miller.

Pretty sure it was called HOOTS MON!

Whatever it was called, it portrayed us as we really are (not !), packed with hilarious dour, kilted stereotypes and as funny as anything !

What i'd really love to see is a real "airplane" style send-up of Scotland - and chuck in every cliche for maximum effect !

In that case, there would be only one place to film it - in our mickey mouse Scottish Parliament, a place packed to the rafters with bad actors!

luvUKfilms

Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedom!!!!!!!!!!

christoph404

Well "Brigadoon" with Gene kelly and Van Johnson comes close and "Bonnie Scotland" with laurel and hardy is pretty good too! Not to mention "Highlander" which is just awful, Scots actor James Cosmo must have cringed with embarrasement at having to say the line " och aye, a nearly peed ma kilt.....har har"......Quite!... another little known Scottish saying...

sheriff_bart

no one has mentioned this

Comfort and Joy (1984)

comfort and joy a great film from Bill Forsyth and never seems to get shown anymore.

Steve Crook

Shame it didn't have much to do with Scotland. Or any other reality. Only a mythical version of Scotland and Scottish history

Steve

Steve Crook

Have you seen Braveheart?

Steve

christoph404

Ouch!... people of Scotland might disagree but I can see why the film doesn't get much favour south of the border!.. William Wallace was not a mythical character, he was a real historical figure and his military and political life is fairly well documented historical fact. A brief history of Wallace; Common but educated man resists the invasion of cruel KIng Edward "Longshanks" and forms a heavily outnumbered army which defeats Edwards invading force at the battle of Stirling Bridge. Wallace was a brilliant strategist and used the topography of the landscape around Stirling, the fact the the river at Stirling had many snakes and bends and the advancing English army was forced to cross at a small narrow wooden bridge, it was the only way to advance North. The scenario was similar to the battle of Thermopylae and add to that the fact that the terrain was very boggy, the large English force of both cavalry and infantry could not deploy their greater numbers to good effect. The result was a bit of a massacre with Wallace reputedely ordering no prisoners to be taken and the defeated and demoralised English army was not allowed to simply flee south but were subjected to wholescale bloody massacre. The hated Earl of Cressingham was unfortunate enough to be captured alive, Wallace had him flayed alive and used the skin form his back to make a "leather" hand grip for his large sword.Wallace was hailed as "Gaurdian of Scotland" and was Knighted by the Scottish nobility to become Sir William Wallace. Fired by his success at Stirling Wallace decide to march south with his army and take the war into England, attacking and capturing Berwick. Political wranglings and betrayal ensued with the Scottish nobility turning against the ambitious Wallace and fearfull of his power he was indeed betrayed by his own kinsmen. Defeated at the Battle of Falkirk Wallace became a fugitive and was on the run for a number of years. He travelled around Europe seeking political support and reputedely had an audience with the pope. Wallace did indeed speak Latin and French which was common to those with an education. Wallace's execution was reasonably well depicted in the film though the true horror of being hanged drawn and quartered was toned down quite a bit. Wallace was a real historical figure and is considered a national hero in Scotland, to be fair to the film Braveheart, it does represent many of the historical events in an accurate way but unfortunately the film does add in quite a lot of hollywood baloney such as the romance with the French queen which is just plain silly. I think the trouble with films that are supposedley based on true characters and represent historical events, when you then add in ludicrous fiction to make the story more entertaining it becomes very easy to dismiss the whole thing as a load of made up fantasy which I would say is not quite the case with Braveheart. I always thought the story of Wallace would have made a good film even before Braveheart came out, but I would have had Scots actor James Cosmo in the part rather than the dimmunitive Gibson.

ProfMarcus

I realise of course that this is totally , but I thought I'd put in a word for the Scotland That Was:

Geordie
The Maggie
The Battle Of the Sexes
Tunes Of Glory
The Brothers
Whisky Galore

. . . and new thumbscrews for me . . .

batman

The Brothers - great film!

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

David Challinor

One of the very first cinema experiences for me was Ring of Bright Water (1968), Scotland's very own Born Free, with otters rather than lions and a sad, but uplifting ending. Some kids must have wept all the way home from the ABC Birkenhead after that bloke with the beard did that to Mij....I just sang along with Val Doonican.
....I'm glad Comfort & Joy got a mention - lovely photography in that film I recall.

Moor Larkin

Anyone got the gaelic cut of Thomasina?

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/dvd/Th...IjecNgKFP7Q%3d

Edition Description
• Released in English
• Originally in Gaelic
• NTSC (Canada and USA)
• Runtime: 97 minutes
• Color