Neil Paterson Trailers
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Neil Paterson was Scottish novelist and screenwriter. He originally attended university with the intention of following in his father’s footsteps and becoming a solicitor, but quickly realized his passion laid with football after joining Edinburgh University AFC. He played for Buckie Thistle in the Highland League, and for Leith Athletic in the Scottish League and was captain of Dundee United in the 1936–37 season. He then decided to quit the sport and turned to sports journalism, landing a position with DC Thomson. He married Rose MacKenzie in 1939 and joined the Navy during the Second World War. After the war, he returned to writing and published his first novel On my Faithless Arm in 1946 under the pseudonym John Kovack. His second novel, The China Run: Being the biography of a great-grandmother, was published two years later. In 1951, Hodder & Stoughton published a collection of short stories titled And Delilah: Nine stories. The collection included a short story named Scotch Settlement, which was adapted by Paterson himself into the screenplay for the film The Kidnappers and kickstarted his career as a screenwriter. In 1959, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Room on Top, based on the novel of the same name by John Braine.
Most Popular Neil Paterson Trailers
Total trailers found: 11
17 August 1990
Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada.
25 August 1955
A carnival boss and a little person from the sideshow compete for the same woman.
11 July 1957
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
25 March 1958
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
30 April 1957
After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel, the steadfast friend and the poetry-quoting newcomer.
29 December 1958
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
21 May 1953
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.
17 March 1954
A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey
03 August 1962
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.
01 December 1953
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and cantankerous grandfather in Nova Scotia.
01 January 1959
An introduction to Perthshire, Scotland.
