TROUBLE IN THE GLEN
UK, 91 minutes, Colour.
Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Forrest Tucker, Victor Mc Laglen, John Mc Callum, Eddie Byrne, Archie Duncan, Moultrie Kelsall.
Directed by Herbert Wilcox.
Trouble in the Glen is based on a popular story by Maurice Walsh. It is an Anglo- American co-production between Herbert Wilcox, husband of Anna Neagle, and Herbert Yates of Republic Pictures. It has attractive Scottish locations - and an odd blend of American and English stars led by Orson Wells, Margaret Lockwood as his daughter, and Forrest Tucker. Australian John Mc Callum is the Scots tinker son of Victor Mc Laglen.
The film shows the clashes in the highlands, the outsider laird coming back to take his position and dominate the people, as well as the locals and their clash with the gypsies. A lot of Scottish flavour.
1.Entertaining comedy drama? Scotland?
2.Location photography, the beauty of Scotland, the landscapes, the water, the castles? Musical score?
3.The title and its reference to the laird, romance, the gypsies and the fights?
4.Orson Welles as the laird, his voice-over and explanation of things? His perspective? His severity, against the gypsies? With his daughter? The clashes, his eventually coming to terms - and being accepted?
5.Margaret Lockwood as his daughter, stern, like her father? Interfering? The locals against her? Her meeting the hero, his daughter, mellowing? Clashes, romance? The fight? The reconciliation?
6.Forrest Tucker as hero - the American background, the war, coming home, the couple looking after his daughter, the secret? The clash with the laird? With the gypsies? The couple looking after his daughter? The laird's daughter, clashes and romance? The fights, the final battle - and the reconciliation?
7.His daughter, the polio, her relationship with her foster parents, the truth, her joy, the happy ending?
8.The tinkers, the old father, his aggressiveness, the stealing of the cattle, the hostility of the locals? Malcolm and his aggression, life in the village? Siding with his father? The build-up to the battle?
9.The locals, hostility towards the gypsies, the build-up to the clash, the various sides, arguments, peacemakers? Sorting out the troubles?
10.Memories of the old times in the highlands, the Scots temperament, the clashes, the suspicion of the outsider - but the sense of humour?
