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The Maggie
Why this pick
Mackendrick again turns a Scottish community into a wry comic battleground, with eccentric locals, stubborn authority figures and a gently escalating scheme carried by maritime atmosphere.
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MOVIE1949 1h 22m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday in the Outer Hebrides are largely unaffected by wartime rationing, until the supply of whisky runs out in 1943. Then gloom descends on the disconsolate natives. In the midst of this catastrophe, Sergeant Odd returns on leave to court Peggy, the daughter of the local shopkeeper Joseph Macroon. Meanwhile, Macroon's other daughter, Catriona, has just become engaged to a meek schoolteacher, George Campbell, although his stern, domineering mother refuses to give her approval.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Catherine Lacey
Mrs. Waggett
Bruce Seton
Sergeant Odd
Gabrielle Blunt
Catriona Macroon
Jean Cadell
Mrs. Campbell
John Gregson
Sammy MacCodrun
Duncan Macrae
Angus MacCormac
Alastair Hunter
Captain MacKechnie
James Robertson Justice
Dr. Maclaren