Kilts in Hollywood Films

[Jimmy]

Trouble in the Glen with Orson Welles a a Chilean-Scottish Chief (if memory serves me correctly).

T.

both that story and The Quiet Man from 'The Green Rushes' by Maurice Walsh.
I have a cherished copy of this book which went out of print years ago, full of wholesome good short stories

[macwilkin]

both that story and The Quiet Man from 'The Green Rushes' by Maurice Walsh.
I have a cherished copy of this book which went out of print years ago, full of wholesome good short stories

Yes...and Green Rushes features a fly-fishing officer of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. The stories are not so-light hearted as the movie was.

T.

[Jack Daw]

I'm home from work today because it's Columbus Day. By happenstance, I channel-surfed to a cable channel feature called I'll Be There (2002). It stars Craig Ferguson and Charlotte Church. I only caught the last 30 or 40 minutes of the pic, but I picked up that Ferguson plays an aging Scottish rock star who discovers that Charlotte Church's character is his daughter from some sexual tryst with a Welsh woman. At the end of the film, there's a going-away party for Church and all the men are in black-tie kilt kits, except for Ferguson who wears a kilt, Jacobite shirt and piper's plaid. HEY! This is a British production and not U.S., so don't blame Hollywood on the costuming!

[Jack Daw]

A film from my dvd collection: To End All Wars 2001, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Carlyle. Carlyle plays an Argyll & Sutherland Highlander, who becomes a prisoner of war to the Japanese in Burma (obviously) during World War II.

[thoth51]

Just saw Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor at an open air film festival this past Sunday. At the young emperor Puyi's first lesson with his English tutor, he asks Reginald Johnston, played by Peter O'Toole why he isn't wearing a skirt, as is the custom of the Scots, and Johnston corrects him about the kilt.

Later in the film Johnston is seen in his kilted finery.