Kilts in Westerns

**macwilkin** · 16th December 08, 04:35 PM

The Rare Breed has a kilt-wearing Brian Keith playing a Scottish rancher:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060884/

Regards,

Todd

**auld argonian** · 16th December 08, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by Prester John

I remember Ray Walston played an Irishman! but remember no Scot in it.

I was thinking of another character other than the one played by Ray Walston...I just watched the movie a couple of months ago...I'm looking for some reference on it...

Best

AA

**Wompet** · 16th December 08, 04:46 PM

From what I saw of The Rare Breed, Brian Keith wore tartan trews in one scene, but the closest he got to a kilt was the buffalo robe/wrap outfit he was wearing in his first scene.
Can great kilts be made out of buffalo skins? (The ancestors of Ron's leather RKilts ... )

**Jack Daw** · 16th December 08, 04:57 PM

SURE!!

The Way West, starring Kirk Douglas. Douglas plays a wagon train master that leads settlers along the Oregon trail. They stop at Fort Hall manned by the British 4th Infantry Reg. and commanded by Captain Grant. Although the story line and main characters are fictional, Fort Hall and Cpt. Grant were very real. In the movie, the wagon train is met at the gate front by pipers in trews, if I remember correctly. But, later, I believe Cpt. Grant is wearing a kilt.

Across the Missouri features Alan Napier in a kilt. He dances a Highland fling with another Scotsman. The main actor is Clark Gable. No, Gable is not kilted.

Centennial, a TV mini-series from around 1978. Richard Chamberlain as Alexander McKeag, a scots fur-trader. I seem to recall one scene in which he wears the kilt. But, just one.

**MacAngus** · 16th December 08, 04:57 PM

There i a website called bagpipes go to the movies.com that has almost every movie with pipes and the kilted in them . Hope this helps

**Jock Scot** · 17th December 08, 03:23 AM

I think there is a balmoral "starring" in the Alamo.

**Wompet** · 17th December 08, 11:20 AM

There's also a balmoral with badge and feather in Quigley Down Under. No kilts though.

**McClef** · 17th December 08, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by Prester John

I remember Ray Walston played an Irishman! but remember no Scot in it.

It didn't sound Irish to me - more like someone from the north of England - a Yorkshireman or Lancastrian.

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 29th December 08, 08:07 PM

Maybe he was from Liverpool... lots of Irish there!

**Riverkilt** · 29th December 08, 09:15 PM

A modern western filmed in New Mexico, Christmas in the Clouds, has a cameo of Wes Studi kilted.

I've seen Paint Your Wagon a lot. Love it..."Unmount!" 'Welcome to Hell preacher!" "Whatever the bid is, I double it!"

Walston's character is named Mad Jack Duncan and has, to me, a thick Scottish accent.

Ron