Kilts in Westerns

[macwilkin]

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

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

Regards,

Todd

[sathor]

I wonder if Back to the Future 3 might have, being the McFlys...but I don't seem to remember it if there was.

[Wompet]

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]

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]

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]

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

[gilmore]

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

There have been several movies of the Battle of the Alamo. I remember seeing one in which there was a Scot among its defenders. He played a fiddle, and, I believe, wore a kilt as well.

[Jack Daw]

There have been several movies of the Battle of the Alamo. I remember seeing one in which there was a Scot among its defenders. He played a fiddle, and, I believe, wore a kilt as well.

John MacGregor, purported to have played the pipes inside the Alamo during the siege, has only been portrayed in the films once, I think, and that was the 2004 version of the Alamo. You can hear him longer than he is on screen, so don't blink. He is wearing trousers, unfortunately.

[macwilkin]

There have been several movies of the Battle of the Alamo. I remember seeing one in which there was a Scot among its defenders. He played a fiddle, and, I believe, wore a kilt as well.

I can't say I've ever seen any hard evidence of John Macgregor wearing a kilt at the Alamo. Macgregor, as Jack Daw mentioned, was reportedly a piper, not a fiddler, but he did supposedly engage David Crockett in a "musical duel" with Crockett on the fiddle...

T.

[Jack Daw]

I can't say I've ever seen any hard evidence of John Macgregor wearing a kilt at the Alamo. Macgregor, as Jack Daw mentioned, was reportedly a piper, not a fiddler, but he did supposedly engage David Crockett in a "musical duel" with Crockett on the fiddle...

T.

This is according to Susanna Dickinson whose credibility is suspect because she contradicted herself in a few newspaper interviews she gave over the years since the battle. Although she married a couple of times, she also sold her body as well as her stories in order to eat. Joe, Colonel Travis' personal slave and fellow survivor, never corroborated this particular tale. But, it could still be true. I'd like it to be.