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Year: 1983
Genre: Film
Channel: Film4
Running Time: 107 minutes
Available from: 31 Aug 2022
Removed: 5 Apr 2023

Peter Riegert, Peter Capaldi and Jenny Seagrove star in this lively comedy drama. A Texas oil company executive is sent to Scotland to buy up an entire village for the site of a new refinery.

Cast and Crew

Director: Bill Forsyth
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Norman Chancer, Peter Capaldi, Rikki Fulton, Alex Norton, Jenny Seagrove, Jennifer Black, Christopher Rozycki, Gyearbuor Asante, John M. Jackson, Dan Ammerman, Tam Dean Burn, Luke Coulter, Karen Douglas, Kenny Ireland, Harlan Jordan, Charles Kearney, Betty Macey, David Mowat, John Poland, Brian Rowan, Ann Scott-Jones, Ian Stewart, Tanya Ticktin, Jonathan Watson, Mark Winchester, Dave Anderson, Alan Clark, Alan Darby, Caroline Guthrie, Ray Jeffries, Willie Joss, James Kennedy, Michelle McCarel, Roddy Murray, Buddy Quaid, Edith Ruddick, John Gordon Sinclair, Anne Thompson, Sandra Voe, Dale Winchester, Jimmy Yuill
Writer: Bill Forsyth

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