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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 enduring call of Local Hero 40 years on. Alamy. Local Hero was released in 1983 and is recognised as a classic. It is the story of a US petro-chemical giant seeking to build a refinery in a ...
Local Hero: Directed by Bill Forsyth. With Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson. An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Bill Forsyth
- 1983-04-29
Jun 6, 2023 · Few films have been as enduring as Local Hero. Released 40 years ago, the landmark Scottish film starring Hollywood legend Burt Lancaster put Scottish cinema on the map, launched the career of a ...
- Anthony Frajman
- Local Hero was the first film soundtrack that Dire Straits singer and guitarist Mark Knopfler ever composed and performed, and the album was so successful that it reportedly made more money than the film.
- Michael Douglas and Henry Winkler were in the running for the part of Mac, ultimately played by Peter Riegert.
- Two locations were used to create the fictitious town of Ferness. The beach scenes were shot on the west coast of Scotland, in Morar, and the village scenes were shot on the northern coast, in Pennan, over four hours away.
- The film’s story was inspired by a news report about U.S. oil companies buying up land in the Orkney islands. While working on a first draft, producer David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) and director Bill Forsyth found another source of inspiration when they screened Alexander Mackendrick’s Whisky Galore!
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 ...
Nov 27, 2022 · On one level Local Hero is a prophetic film about ongoing environmental catastrophe. But Melville hints other matters are afoot – the relationship between Scotland and America being one. Like The Maggie, Alexander Mackendrick’s 1954 Ealing pic, Scots outsmart the Americans.
