Scotland on Screen

00:00:06 'Scotland's spectacular scenery has played a starring role in movies from Brigadoon to Braveheart.'

00:03:15 Certain elements in a Scottish film have got to be there.

00:05:40 by the film that played fast and loose with history with Mel Gibson

00:08:21 Do you have thistles in your handbag at all times for boys if you like them? Wouldn't that be funny?

00:11:08 'Highland films may continue to borrow from Brigadoon mythology

00:14:01 It's not today she'd get back.

00:16:32 You get that sense of going somewhere that is a different place

00:18:56 Yes, my lady. What would it be but the Gaelic?

00:21:51 I saw that film in Liverpool when I was 17.

00:24:39 Everything under control? Aye, m'lord.

00:27:06 and, staying in a room next to Britt Ekland, temptation comes a-knocking.

00:29:41 # And of that feather was a bed... #

00:31:51 There's weird things like the toad in the mouth.

00:33:58 'The scenes where Howie finally meets his fate at the hands of these free-range deviants

00:36:18 The Wicker Man may depict a Scotland of superstition and religious extremes

00:38:31 But they're extremely effective in evoking that sort of sense of this genteel

00:40:51 You want good manners. You do want to speak well.

00:43:07 pursuing their own gratification in a very anarchic way.

00:45:30 So the cinematic product that has come out of our city generally reflects that -

00:48:00 No. He was just a traditional blinkered guy. Football is a man's thing.

00:50:04 The innate awkwardness of Gregory was something every...

00:52:14 so that the whole place just expressed that gawkiness.

00:54:28 I thought it would be an impossible process shot, too expensive

00:56:51 Gary Lewis, "I'm here for you, Ma," carrying the coffin on his shoulders.