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Apr 29, 2023 · The enduring call of Local Hero 40 years on. 29 April 2023. Ben Philip. BBC Scotland. Alamy. Local Hero was released in 1983 and is recognised as a classic. It is the story of a US petro-chemical ...
Local Hero (film) Local Hero. (film) Local Hero is a 1983 British dramedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam. It stars Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, and Fulton Mackay. Riegert plays an American oil company representative who is sent to the fictional village of Ferness on the ...
- The soundtrack sold more than the film itself. Despite it being his first film score, Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler enjoyed considerable success with his soundtrack for Bill Forsyth’s film; so much so that he began incorporating the Going Home theme into the encore of Dire Straits concerts.
- It’s Al Gore’s favourite movie. The former Vice-President of the United States, presidential candidate and now environmental activist Al Gore revealed in an interview with Oprah Winfrey on September 11 2000, that Local Hero was his favourite film.
- During the scene in Mac’s car, he’s listening to ‘K-NOX’ radio. When we see MacIntyre in his Porsche towards the beginning of the film, he’s listening to a radio station that identifies itself as KNOX - sharing a name with the firm he works for, Knox Oil and Gas.
- A red phone box was installed in Pennan so as not to disappoint visitors. Hundreds of Local Hero fans visited Pennan in the hope of catching a glimpse of the iconic red phone box - only to find there wasn’t one.
Mar 15, 2024 · Local Hero 2024 will be released on March 15, with it having its first play at St James' Park on Saturday, March 2 as Newcastle take on Wolves in the Premier League. Here is the full list of those ...
Mar 2, 2024 · PA. Mark Knopfler has reworked his Local Hero theme. 2 March 2024. St James' Park will be treated to a new version of Dire Straits star Mark Knopfler's Local Hero on Saturday. Knopfler has joined ...
Local Hero filming location: the ‘Macaskill Arms’ hotel: Pennan, Scotland | Photograph: Wikimedia / John Allan. The village itself is Pennan, on the north Grampian coast, 36 miles north of Aberdeen on the B9032. It’s at Pennan that you’ll find the exterior of the ‘Macaskill Arms’ hotel (in fact a private home, so please don’t do ...
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Nov 27, 2022 · By John Quin. Share. The inside story of a genuine Scottish classic hints at what Local Hero is really about. "COULD you imagine a world without oil?”. A prescient line said by Mac, the central character in Bill Forsyth’s 1982 movie Local Hero, a Texas yuppie sent to buy up land in Scotland. The director wanted to make “stories about our ...
