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The Bridal Path |
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The Bridal Path - 1959 | 95 mins | Comedy | ColourThe Production TeamDirector: Frank
Launder. Producer: Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. Script: Frank Launder and Geoffrey Willans. (from the novel by Nigel Tranter) Cinematography: Arthur Ibbetson. Editing: Geoffrey Foot. Art Direction: Wilfred Shingleton. Makeup Department: Bill Griffiths and Bill Lodge. Sound Department: Leslie Hodgson, Red Law and Fressy Ryan. Original Music: Cedric Thorpe Davie. |
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The Cast Bill Travers - Ewan MacEwan George Cole - Police Sergeant Bruce Bernadette O'Farrell - Siona Duncan Macrae - H.Q. Police Sergeant Alex Mackenzie - Finlay Patricia Bredin - Margaret Fiona Clyne - Katie Dilys Laye - Isobel Eddie Byrne - Mike Flanagan Terry Scott - P.C. Donald Gordon Jackson - P.C. Alec |
Plot SynopsisGentle vintage comedy adapted from Nigel Tranter's novel and set against the backdrop of spectacular Highland scenery. Starring Bill Travers, Fiona Clyne, George Cole and Gordon Jackson. A young Hebridean farmer, Ewan McEwan (Bill Travers), goes wife-hunting on the Scottish mainland when the island's elders decree there is too much in-breeding on their fair shores and as a consequence they forbid first cousins to marry. Believing she is Ewan’s first cousin, his sweetheart Katie (Fiona Clyne) leaves the island and takes passage to Glasgow. With only a handful of women to choose from, Ewan heads to the mainland in search of a wife. Arriving in Oban with a wish-list of requirements for his new prospective wife, Ewan soon discovers that the police are after him believing him to be a slave trader and salmon poacher — and he does not know why. The misunderstandings are eventually cleared up and Ewan returns home with a choice that shocks the craggy locals. |
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