The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

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Drama, Documentary, Music, Comedy, History, TV Movie
Runtime
90 mins
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In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags.

Cast

  • John Bett
  • Dolina MacLennan
  • David Maclennan
  • Elizabeth MacLennan
  • Alex Norton
  • Bill Paterson
  • Allan Ross
  • John McGrath
  • Charles Kearney
  • James Cosmo
  • Iain Glas
  • David Steaurt
  • Kenneth Benda
  • Stuart Mungall
  • Terry Cavers
  • Kevin Collins

Director

  • John Mackenzie

Producers

  • Graeme MacDonald

Screenwriter

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