Information
- BFI identifier219209
- Date1983 (Copyright)
1983-05-26 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisA large Houston-based oil firm sends Mac MacIntyre over to Scotland to complete a deal to buy up an entire village to construct a new oil refinery. Far from being against the proposal the Scots are eager to sell for a profit. Problems occur with the deal and the eccentric American boss, Felix Happer arrives to sort things out. (Synopsis)
- Work historyNFT audiotape of David Puttnam & Bill Forsyth post-screening talk held by BFI National Library.
- Genre
- Subject
- Credits
- CastPeter Riegert ('Mac' MacIntyre)
Denis Lawson (Gordon Urquhart)
Fulton Mackay (Ben Knox)
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Title
Local Hero (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/F1B3-8B38-B5F1-EB0E-5E9A-HCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
- Collections
- Film / Video
LTO5 - Video - MP4 - Viewing
LTO5 - Video - MP4 - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript: shooting - First draft screenplay by Bill Forsyth, typescript with annotations [photocopy] July 1981 - DTP-1-24-1-1
Script - Script type: Post Production Release Script - SCR-1862
Script - Script type: Screenplay - 5th Draft - SCR-1863
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-219209
Local Hero - Continuity material for production of Local Hero (dir. Bill Forsyth, 1983 ) - RAM-8
See DAVID PUTTNAM Special Collection. Small pressbook held.
view all - Posters / DesignsPoster: film - Single sheet landscape - PD-13779
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape - PD-13840
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-wrq
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00n-wff
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00n-wdk
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-wdj
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-wdi
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- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes April 2016
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +Local Hero
Work - 219209 - 1983 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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