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Local Hero
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-LIVE MERMAID WANTS TO SAVE IT... ONLY ONE OF THEM WILL GET THEIR WAY.
6.8(424)19831h 51m
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.
- Director
- Bill Forsyth
- Writers
- Bill Forsyth
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Cast
Burt Lancaster
Felix Happer
Peter Riegert
"Mac" MacIntyre
Denis Lawson
Gordon Urquhart
Fulton Mackay
Ben Knox
Peter Capaldi
Danny Oldsen
Jennifer Black
Stella Urquhart
Jenny Seagrove
Marina
Norman Chancer
Moritz
Rikki Fulton
Geddes
Alex Norton
Watt
Christopher Rozycki
Victor
Gyearbuor Asante
Rev Macpherson
John M. Jackson
Cal
Dan Ammerman
Donaldson
Tam Dean Burn
Roddy
John Gordon Sinclair
Ricky
Caroline Guthrie
Pauline
Jimmy Yuill
Iain
Karen Douglas
Mrs Wyatt
Kenny Ireland
Skipper
Sandra Voe
Mrs Fraser
Harlan Jordan
Fountain
Charles Kearney
Peter
David Mowat
Gideon
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Crew
Directing
- Bill ForsythDirector
- Jonathan BensonFirst Assistant Director
- Matthew BinnsAssistant Director
- Melvin LindAssistant Director
Writing
- Bill ForsythScreenplay
Production
- David PuttnamProducer
- Iain SmithAssociate Producer
- Susie FiggisCasting
Camera
- Chris MengesDirector of Photography
- Michael CoulterCamera Operator
Editing
- Michael BradsellEditor
- Jim HoweFirst Assistant Editor
Sound
- Mark KnopflerOriginal Music Composer
- Mike TuckerBoom Operator
- Allan BreretonSound Assistant
- Louis KramerSound Mixer
- Lionel StruttADR Mixer
Art
- Adrienne AtkinsonArt Direction
- Frank WalshArt Direction
- Roger Murray-LeachProduction Design
- Ian WatsonArt Direction
- Arthur WicksProperty Master
- Bill StarkProps
Costume & Make-Up
- Barbara SuttonHairdresser
- Tommie MandersonMakeup Supervisor
Crew
- Roy CarnellSpecial Effects
- Stuart GallowaySpecial Effects
- Peter HutchinsonSpecial Effects
- Patrick McColganSpecial Effects
- Peter SkehanSpecial Effects
- Wally VeeversSpecial Effects
- Roy HansfordCarpenter