"A BEAUTIFUL COASTLINE... A RICH OIL MAN WANTS TO DEVELOP IT. A POOR BEACH BUM WANTS TO LIVE ON IT. AN ENTIRE TOWN WANTS TO PROFIT BY IT. AND A REAL-LI" 17 February 1983 Drama, Comedy 111 mins
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
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Burt Lancaster as Felix Happer
Peter Riegert as "Mac" MacIntyre
Denis Lawson as Gordon Urquhart
Fulton Mackay as Ben Knox
Peter Capaldi as Danny Oldsen
Jennifer Black as Stella Urquhart
Jenny Seagrove as Marina
Norman Chancer as Moritz
Rikki Fulton as Geddes
Alex Norton as Watt
Christopher Rozycki as Victor
Gyearbuor Asante as Rev Macpherson
John M. Jackson as Cal
Dan Ammerman as Donaldson
Tam Dean Burn as Roddy
John Gordon Sinclair as Ricky
Chris Menges Director of Photography
Mark Knopfler Original Music Composer
Michael Bradsell Editor
Bill Forsyth Director
David Puttnam Producer
Adrienne Atkinson Art Direction
Frank Walsh Art Direction
Iain Smith Associate Producer
Roger Murray-Leach Production Design
Ian Watson Art Direction
Michael Coulter Camera Operator
Arthur Wicks Property Master
Jonathan Benson First Assistant Director
Mike Tucker Boom Operator
Jim Howe First Assistant Editor
Bill Forsyth Screenplay
Lokalny bohater Trailer
Australia 28 April 1983
Brazil 26 November 1998
Germany 02 December 1983
Denmark 26 December 1983
Spain 20 July 1983
United Kingdom 17 March 1983
Ireland 29 April 1983
Japan 19 April 1986
Netherlands 14 March 2008
Portugal 30 December 1987
United States 17 February 1983
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02 December 1983
More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.
01 January 1983
Faithful adaptation of a story by Tomasi di Lampedusa on the encounter between a man and a mermaid, for the television series Ten Italian directors, ten Italian short stories , in which Gianni Amelio, Luigi Comencini, Carlo Lizzani participated among others.
19 October 1983
Ebenezer Scrooge is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is a time for kindness and generosity.
10 November 1983
When a dedicated jockey finds that the local politicians are not to be trusted and begins to feel his romance with a beautiful woman slowly slipping away, his last-ditch effort to risk it all for his trusted horse Palomo shows that sometimes animals are truly man's best friend.
07 June 1983
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
16 April 1983
The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.
20 March 1983
A film commonly known as “Turkish Jaws” that has little to do with Jaws. From the director who brought you “Turkish Star Wars”.
08 April 1983
When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as father and daughter until fate steps in and he must draw his sword.
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James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Fabergé egg.
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Lynda Wiesmeier, Playmate of the Month July 1982, along with other Playmates
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