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- DirectorAlfred ClarkStarsRobert ThomaeMrs. Robert L. ThomasThis short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsAnnette KellermanMaurice CostelloA young girl is being urged by her father to marry a Duke. She refuses and leaves the room, closely followed by the Duke who remains unseen. She enters the garden, where she meets her lover. The couple plight their troth. The young man gives his sweetheart a ring in token, then hastily departs. The girl, turning, meets the Duke face to face. He follows her to the house, tells her father of the scene he has witnessed. The old man angrily orders his daughter from the room, then with the Duke concocts a plan to cure the girl's love. They dispatch a note, signing the lover's name, making an appointment for that evening. She unsuspectingly goes to the spot designated, waits anxiously for her lover, and when he does not appear, returns home, convinced that he is false. Another forged note but adds to her grief, and when the Duke again presses his suit the girl reluctantly consents. In due time the wedding takes place and as the bride signs the marriage contract, her former lover enters and demands an explanation. The girl tells of the letters. He angrily asks for the betrothal ring, throws it to the ground, grinds it beneath his feet, bitterly curses her and her family, then leaves. The young girl realizing the deception practiced upon her, shows signs of madness. Her father, entering with the Duke, becomes alarmed at her condition. The latter is frightened at her wild appearance, and as he approaches she stabs him before her father can intercede. She kisses the picture of her lover, walks among the guests still carrying the dagger. During this time the lover in his room is bemoaning his fate, when the fearful news is brought to him. He hastens to the castle and pleads with his sweetheart, trying to bring back her wandering senses. She gazes at him wildly at first, then gradually her memory returns. The forged letters arc again brought out and when the lover denies having written them, the knowledge that he still loves her and the fact that she has been cruelly deceived, drives her again to madness and she dies in her lover's arms.
- DirectorArthur VivianStarsJohn ClydeTheo HenriesDurward LelyAn outlawed clan leader rebels against George I.
- DirectorJames YoungStarsClara Kimball YoungJames YoungMrs. E.M. KimballPart One. To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl three years old, who had been deserted by her parents. Fifteen years later, Gavin Dishart, the Little Minister, receives an appointment, his first, at Thrums, Scotland. This was made possible through the self-sacrifices of his widowed mother, to educate him for the ministry. The community of Thrums is made up of weavers, who work hard, have little and accomplish much. They are ultra-religious and look upon their pastor with such reverence that he is a little lower than the angels. While naturally intelligent, they are grounded in dogma and intolerance. Just after the Little Minister takes charge of the "Auld Licht Kirk" and the Manse, the weavers resent a reduction, by the manufacturers, in their pay and a strike is declared. To protect themselves against the inevitable and unexpected arrival of the police and soldiers, they have sentinels stationed at the four approaches to the town. Lord Rintoul has established a large country residence at Thruns. He holds himself aloof from the townspeople and he is looked upon as a great and mighty peer. The soldiers, whenever they come to Thrums on their incursions of suppression, always stop at his dwelling to consult him or pay their respects. They do not make this particular visit an exception and do not fail to acquaint him with their plans. The rioters are all gathered together in the square and the Little Minister implores them to disperse and peaceably go to their homes. While he is addressing them, a Gypsy girl mounts the steps from which he is speaking and cries out to the people to stand firm in declaring their rights, "The soldiers are on their way even now to arrest you." The Little Minister is appalled at her temerity and he denounces her as a shameless woman. This is the introduction of "The Little Minister" to "Babbie," although he had seen her in the wood, when she appeared as a nymph-like vision of loveliness. Then the soldiers sweep into the square and drive the people before them as they scatter to the woods. Sanders Webster, the only support of Nannie, his sister, is arrested as a leader in the strike and Nannie is left alone in poverty. Captain Nalliwell, in charge of the soldiers, orders the Gypsy girl's arrest for inciting riot. The Little Minister, notwithstanding his denunciations, loves Babbie, despite himself, and to save her from arrest, he passes her through the outposts as his wife. He offers to escort her to her home, although she has always declared her home was the wood. She insists upon seeing him home, and when they arrive there, he bids her good-bye and enters the Manse. She seats herself on a settee in his garden and discovers lying on it, his Bible. She picks it up and writes across one of its pages, "I will never tell that you allowed me to he called Mrs. Dishart before witnesses, but is this not a Scotch Marriage? Babbie." Part Two. The Little Minister proves himself to be a power in Thrums and he is beloved by the people. Through his preaching, Rob Dow, the village drunkard, takes the pledge and joins the church. Babbie, who is known as the Gypsy, in Thrums, is known as "Lady Babbie" in the home of Lord Rintoul, by whom she has been educated as a lady, befitting one whom he intends to make his wife. He sets the day and announces it with a great reception; "Tomorrow, he is to wed his ward, Lady Babbie," Doctor McQueen calls at the Manse and tells the Little Minister that he is coming to take Nannie Webster to the poorhouse and asks him to accompany him in his sad errand. Gavin goes to Nannie's hut and as gently as possible, tells her they have come to take her away. The poor woman sees no alternative, but she hesitates and lingers in the home, which, however humble, is the dearest place on earth to her. At this moment, Babbie, the Gypsy girl, appears. She is indignant that Gavin and the Doctor should he engaged in such an errand. She provides Nannie with money and tells her that she shall stay, and she agrees to furnish through the Little Minister, a sufficient sum each week to keep her in comfort until her brother is released. They cannot credit such a proposition, but she arranges to meet Gavin in Caddam Wood the next day where she will deliver into his hands the first five pounds of Nannie's support. Regardless of the warnings of others, and the belief that the Gypsy has bewitched him, Gavin keeps his appointment and finds her awaiting him, perched in a tree. The astonished minister almost believes she has been making game of him in her promised provision for Nannie, but she soon convinces him to the contrary, when she places the money in his hand. Part Three. The next day is Lord Rintoul's wedding day, and there is great preparation at the Hall. "Babbie" has purposely kept out of Gavin's way that he might not suffer on her account. They unexpectedly meet and he tells her that he will meet her at Nannie's that day. She implores him not to come, but he says, "I will he there." The farmers of Thrums suffer greatly from the prevailing drought. The elders of the Kirk call a prayer meeting for that night to pray for rain. The church is full to overflowing, but the Little Minister does not appear. He is at Nannie's with "Babbie." She pleads with him to give up his love for her, as she is unworthy of it and then she tells him what she has never told him before; that she is the ward of Lord Rintoul and must marry him that night. She also tells him how she overheard the soldiers' plans and warned the strikers. She hides nothing from him. Gavin asks her to go to Lord Rintoul and tell him that she does not love him, make an honest confession and throw herself upon his better judgment. She replies that Rintoul would not listen to her and if she returns to the Hall, Gavin will never see her again. Remembering that the Gypsies are at camp in the woods, Gavin proposes that they he married according to Gypsy rites. They go to the camp and are married over the fire-irons, which is the marriage custom of the Gypsy race. They are watched by members of the Kirk and Lord Rintoul. The marriage has scarcely been performed when the lightning flashes and the thunder roars, the heavens are darkened and all is blackness. When again the lightning flashes upon the scene, Babbie has disappeared and Gavin at once decides that she has been kidnapped. This was a correct conclusion, for indeed she had been kidnapped by Rob Dow, who could never forgive her for having brought reproach upon the Little Minister. Gavin plunges into the wood to search for her and the rain descends, and the floods cover the earth. He wanders on and on, until he drops helpless, where he is found. At break of day, having recovered his senses, he insists upon going to Lord Rintoul's home for he feels sure that Babbie is there. He is advised not to venture out in the floods. He will not listen. As he reaches the cliff overlooking the river, which is running torrents, he meets a shepherd, who, in distress, cries that a man is caught in the torrent below. He has sent a messenger to the town to get help. Gavin discerns through the mist that the man is Lord Rintoul. He plunges down the cliff, into the water and to his rescue. Instead of one, two are now in danger, as they stand on the small piece of earth between them and death. The villagers have come; all hope has deserted them, when Rob Dow rushes down the cliff with a rope in his hand, swims through the whirlpool and passes the rope to Gavin, then sinks and is swept away. Willing hands, who have held tight to one end of the rope, pull hard and Gavin ties his end around himself and the helpless lord and they are drawn to the shore in safety. With cheers and happy hearts, the villagers proudly escort the Little Minister to the Manse, where he finds Babbie, with his mother, awaiting him. Lord Rintoul, whom Babbie did not marry, relinquishes all claim to her and she and the Little Minister shortly afterwards, have a real "Auld Licht Kirk" wedding, making them man and wife until death do them part. Needless to say, that Lady Babbie, as mistress of the Manse, proves herself a true and godly minister's wife.
- DirectorFrank WilsonStarsFlora MorrisViolet HopsonAlma TaylorA crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.
- DirectorPercy NashStarsJoan RitzGregory ScottHenry VibartA Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.
- DirectorGeorge TerwilligerStarsHelen GreeneEarl Metcalfe
- DirectorMaurice SandgroundStarsBob ReedRowland HillRobert VallisIn Edinburgh a foundry owner weds a German spy's widow who becomes a nurse.
- DirectorPenrhyn StanlawsStarsBetty CompsonGeorge HackathorneEdwin StevensIn 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by increasing industrialization. When Lord Rintoul attempts to rout the rebellious weavers, Babbie always manages to send word in time to prevent their being taken by surprise. Gavin, new minister to the town, falls in love with Babbie, and his relationship with the young gypsy almost costs him his position. But what Gavin and his parishioners do not know is that Babbie is actually Lady Babbie, ward of Lord Rintoul.
- DirectorW.P. KellinoStarsDavid HawthorneGladys JenningsSimeon StuartA clan chief seeks revenge on the jealous Duke who outlawed him.
- DirectorDavid SmithStarsAlice CalhounJames MorrisonHenry HebertA Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.
- DirectorCharles CalvertStarsGladys CooperIvor NovelloHugh MillerIn the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
- DirectorDenison CliftStarsFay ComptonGerald AmesIvan SamsonThe Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyChester A. BachmanPompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder, greets his nephew from Scotland, who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsLillian GishNorman KerryCreighton HaleThe story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenMyrna LoyDavid TorrenceCaptain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsJoseph HislopDorothy SeacombeEve GrayBiography of the ploughboy poet.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsHelen BiggarStewart McAllisterAn impressionistic live-action study by Norman McLaren of art school activities from morning to night. This silent film was the first film of the Glasgow School of Art Film Group.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsLeslie BanksCarol GoodnerFrank VosperDavid Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard (when we still built ships). The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsKatharine HepburnJohn BealAlan HaleIn rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums' Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and worst of all, Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsRobert DonatJean ParkerEugene PalletteA haunted Scottish castle is dismantled and transported to Florida, bringing the family ghost along with it.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRobert DonatMadeleine CarrollLucie MannheimA man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
- DirectorJohn FordLeslie GoodwinsStarsKatharine HepburnFredric MarchFlorence EldridgeThe recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
- DirectorIan DalrympleVictor SavilleStarsVivien LeighRex HarrisonCecil ParkerA local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsNiall MacGinnisBelle ChrystallJohn LaurieA way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsShirley TempleVictor McLaglenC. Aubrey SmithPriscilla Williams, a young girl living with her widowed mother and paternal grandfather at the post he commands in northern India, becomes enamored of military life and embroiled in brewing rebellion against the crown in the early 1900's.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerOtto PremingerStarsWarner BaxterFreddie BartholomewArleen WhelanIn 1747, young David Balfour's life is threatened by his greedy uncle Ebenezer who wishes to become heir to the considerable Balfour estate.
- DirectorThomas BentleyStarsSophie StewartPatrick BarrPhyllis Dare
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiRichard MassinghamNorman McLarenA film advocating thrift by use of the Post Office Savings Bank.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsConrad VeidtValerie HobsonSebastian ShawA German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsZarah LeanderWilly BirgelMaria KoppenhöferWhile awaiting her unjust execution at the hands of the treacherous Queen Elizabeth I, the tragic Mary Stuart reflects at the series of cruel political machinations that set up her path to the scaffold.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsLeslie BanksAlastair SimJeanne De CasalisAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsWill HayClaude HulbertFelix AylmerA hapless teacher named Will Lamb is hired by a grim school in Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Lamb has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsJames StephensonGeraldine FitzgeraldDonald CrispIn a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia precox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsRobert NewtonJames MasonDeborah KerrJames Brodie (Robert Newton) is the only hatter in a small area in Scotland. Ruthless in business as well as at home, he is a tyrant to his family and intimidating to everyone he knows. But, when his mistress convinces him to give her "step-brother" Denis (former boyfriend) a job at the hat shop, tragedy starts creeping towards all involved with Brodie.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsClive BrookMorland GrahamNell BallantyneA generation of shipbuilders is nearly wiped out by the Great Depression, but a second Great War gets them back to work.
- DirectorClive BrookStarsClive BrookBeatrice LillieGoogie WithersTwo wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsWendy HillerRoger LiveseyPamela BrownA young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsBoris KarloffBela LugosiHenry DaniellA ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsCharles CoburnTom DrakeBeverly TylerAn orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
- DirectorClarence ElderStarsNorman WilliamsChristopher CaponMurdo MorrisonSet on the rugged north-east coast of Scotland in the 1800s, Catrine is the wife of a dispossessed farmer who hates his new life as a herring fisherman. When he is press-ganged by the Royal Navy, she must face life without him.
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsPatricia RocWill FyffeMaxwell ReedThe McFarishes and the Macraes are lifelong enemies living on a remote island in the Western Isles of Scotland. Mary Lawson is a Scottish orphan brought up in a convent who arrives on the weekly steamer to come and work as a servant to the Macraes. Mary is warned that she must have no dealings with the McFarish family but living a lonely life she encourages the friendship of Will McFarish, with tragic consequences.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsLeslie ArlissAlexander KordaStarsDavid NivenMargaret LeightonMorland GrahamIn the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsRoddy McDowallSue EnglandDan O'HerlihyIn Scotland in 1752, the 17-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJeanette NolanDan O'HerlihyMacbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsEdmund GwennDonald CrispGeraldine BrooksWhen Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
- DirectorFrederick WilsonStarsGordon JacksonRona AndersonJohn LaurieDavid Shields decides to become a ship designer instead of following the family tradition and entering farming.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsRichard NeyVanessa BrownHenry DaniellAnatole de Keroual is captured by the British in the Napoleonic war and imprisoned in the dungeon of Edinburgh Castle with six companions. Floria Gilchrist, coveted by the fortress commander, Major Edward Chevenish, falls in love with Anatole, and he with her, but Chevenish refuses Floria's plea for a pardon for Anatole unless she agrees to marry him. Anatole engineers an escape from the prison, and goes to London to straighten out affairs of the estate of his uncle, Viscount Victor St. Ives. There he is apprehended and put on trial for murder.
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsBasil RadfordJoan GreenwoodCatherine LaceyScottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.
- DirectorDavid MacKaneStarsHoward ConnellMarjorie ThomsonBetty HendersonA young artist is almost driven to murder as a result of the pressures of living in a Glasgow slum.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsAnn ToddNorman WoolandIvan DesnyMadeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man; they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsRichard ToddGlynis JohnsJoan GreenwoodThree generations of a Scottish family suffer from the effects of heredity
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsDavid NivenVera-EllenCesar RomeroA chorus girl gets a ride from millionaire Bruno's driver. The cash-strapped theater director thinks, she's Bruno's girlfriend and makes her the lead. She meets Bruno, thinking he's a reporter. More confusion follows.
- DirectorTerry BishopStarsDuncan MacraeJoseph TomeltyPatrick BarrAda Shore is mistaken for a new secretary, she brings a breath of fresh air to the traditional university.
- DirectorJohn EldridgeStarsRonald SquireKathleen RyanRaymond HuntleyA parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote community in the Scottish Highlands where the residents are protesting at their poor links with the outside world. After a few days amongst them, the visitors come to appreciate the locals' lifestyle.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsRichard ToddGlynis JohnsJames Robertson JusticeThe wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsErrol FlynnRoger LiveseyAnthony SteelTwo noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGene KellyVan JohnsonCyd CharisseTwo Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsPaul DouglasAlex MackenzieJames CopelandAn American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsMargaret LockwoodOrson WellesForrest TuckerMajor Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed activities of the local laird, Sandy Mengues, a wealthy South American who, with his daughter Marissa, has returned to the land of his forefathers. Led by Lansing, the people eventually prevail upon Mengues to restore peace to the glen, but not before a brief and unconvincing fight between Lansing and Dukes, the Mengues foreman.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsRichard ToddJean PetersMarjorie RambeauThe rise of Peter Marshall, from modest Scottish upbringing, to New York seminary, time in Atlanta churches, his marriage, appointment as chaplain of the US Senate, and early death at 46. Based on real events.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsBill TraversAlastair SimPaul YoungGeordie is a very small boy who feels that the girl he loves is ignoring him because of his size. He decides to take a correspondence course in body-building. At 21, Geordie becomes one of the tallest and strongest men in Scotland.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsRobert TaylorKay KendallRobert MorleyA Scottish knight in France to facilitate a marriage between a rich and beautiful countess and his aging uncle becomes involved in court intrigue.
- DirectorMichael RelphStarsJeannie CarsonDonald SindenRoland CulverInhabitants of the Hebridean isle of Toddaya resist the British government's plan to turn their island home into a missile base.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsPeter SellersRobert MorleyConstance CummingsAngela Barrows, an accomplished business analyst from the US, attempts to contemporise the late MacPherson's tweed factory, shaking the very foundation of a men-only company.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsJames MasonPat BooneArlene DahlAn Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsKenneth MoreTaina ElgBrenda de BanzieIn London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsBill TraversBernadette O'FarrellGeorge ColeBased on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community. Set in the Hebrides off Scotland, the story tells how Ewan MacEwan leaves the isle of Eorsa in search of the perfect wife, but finally returns to marry Katie.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsPeter FinchJames MacArthurBernard LeeIn Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
- DirectorErnest MorrisStarsNorman WoolandJane HyltonDennis Waterman7-year old Ted has diabetes. When he leaves the hospital, the doctor tells his mother Ann not to forget the insulin injections twice a day, which for Ted is a matter of life and death. At the same time as Ted leaves hospital, his father Roy leaves prison. During his six months in jail Roy has written a letter every week to his wife, but his mother-in-law has torn them up, to prevent her daughter from reading them. She has also convinced Ann to divorce. Roy rents a room in London, and then goes to Ann's house to visit her and their son. The mother-in-law tells him to stay away, because Ann and Ted don't want to see him anymore. In his despair Roy involves an old sweetheart in a plan to kidnap Ted. If she accompany them on the night train to Inverness, they will be perceived as a family, and thereby not evoke any suspicions. He doesn't know that Ted has diabetes and needs his injections. The police soon find out that Roy has kidnapped Ted, but they don't know where they have gone. Ann, the doctor and the chief inspector wait nervously at Scotland Yard for information, while the night hours are passing by. Ted must soon be found and get insulin, otherwise he will die.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsPeter CushingJune LaverickDonald PleasenceIn 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsAlec GuinnessJohn MillsSusannah YorkAfter World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsDonald CrispLaurence NaismithAlex MackenzieThe remarkable veritable story of a terrier named Bobby and the enduring friendship he forges with a tenderhearted shepherd known simply as Old Jock---unbroken even by the kindly old man's death.
- DirectorHilary HarrisStarsBryden MurdochKenneth KendallDocumentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an idea of the business of building a ship - the largest moving thing made by man - from the naval architects who design her to the workmen, the shipbuilders in the yard, through to a ship's launching.
- DirectorGilbert GunnStarsAdam FaithSidney JamesCarole LesleyA writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals.
- DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsTony CosgroveOlivier Espitalier-NoelDon FairserviceThe 1746 Battle of Culloden, the last land battle fought in the British Isles and the battle that ensured that Scotland was controlled by England.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsSidney JamesKenneth WilliamsCharles HawtreySir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khyber Pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsMaggie SmithGordon JacksonRobert StephensAn eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.
- DirectorHorst SeemannStarsWerner KanitzAlena ProcházkováThomas WeisgerberIn Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsMichael CaineTrevor HowardLawrence DouglasIn eighteenth century Scotland, during the Jacobite Rebellion, David Balfour claims his inheritance from his uncle who has him shanghaied on a ship where David meets fugitive Jacobite rebel Alan Breck.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsJon FinchFrancesca AnnisMartin ShawA ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
- DirectorCharles JarrottStarsVanessa RedgraveGlenda JacksonPatrick McGoohanDuring the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.
- DirectorEtienne PérierStarsAnthony HopkinsJack HawkinsRobert MorleyIn a vein similar to the James Bond movies, British Agent Philip Calvert (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsPaul LutyRoy MacreadyDerren NesbittTwo men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
- DirectorBill DouglasStarsStephen ArchibaldHughie RestorickJean Taylor SmithThe First part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
- DirectorBill DouglasStarsStephen ArchibaldHughie RestorickJean Taylor SmithJamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother; Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home. Now Jamie is all alone and his life is not at all happy taken over by silence, rejection and violence.
- DirectorRobin HardyStarsEdward WoodwardChristopher LeeDiane CilentoA puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.
- 1970–19841h 30m8.6 (42)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn MackenzieStarsJohn BettDavid MacLennanDolina MacLennanDrama documentary adaptation of John McGrath's play staged by the 7:84 theatre company dealing with the exploitation of the Scottish people throughout history, from the brutal evictions of the Highland crofters by landowners to make way for the more economically viable Cheviot sheep in the 18th century, the development of stag hunts in Highland game parks in the 19th century and finally the exploitation of resources during the oil boom of the 1970's.
- DirectorJoseph McGrathStarsSpike MilliganPeter SellersJulia FosterWilliam Topaz McGonagall, the world's greateset poet. Unfortunately the whole of the rest of the world disagreed. His talent made him a sort of Victorian Chris Evans but without the cash.
- DirectorMaurice HattonStarsCharles GormleyNeville SmithAnn ZeldaFilmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, Long Shot is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking.
- DirectorBill DouglasStarsStephen ArchibaldPaul KermackJessie CombeJamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsRobert PowellDavid WarnerEric PorterIn March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsDavid HaymanJake D'ArcySean ScanlanThe life and imprisonment of Glasgow hard man and gangster Jimmy Boyle.
- DirectorBill ForsythStarsTom MannionEddie BurtRichard DemarcoRonnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion potion.
- DirectorNorman CohenStarsOlivia PascalAlan LongmuirSascha HehnThe story of Henry Carsten (Alan Longmuir), his life as a race car driver and his relationship with Maxe (Olivia Pascal).
- DirectorHugh HudsonStarsBen CrossIan CharlesonNicholas FarrellTwo British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
- DirectorBill ForsythStarsJohn Gordon SinclairDee HepburnJake D'ArcyGregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.
- DirectorRoger ChristianStarsRobert UrquhartRikki FultonJonathan McNeilLight-hearted tale about an enterprising Edinburgh boarding school boy who sets up an insurance scheme for fellow pupils in 1953 against getting caned, which quickly earns him a small fortune.