Laxdale Hall
- 1953 film
Car owners in a remote Scottish village refuse to pay road taxes untill a proper road has been built.
Laxdale Hall
Laxdale Hall, a rarely seen British comedy receiving its first release to home entertainment, is a 1953 film directed by John Eldridge and starring Ronald Squire, Kathleen Ryan, Raymond Huntley, Prunella Scales, Fulton Mackay, Roddy McMillan, Jameson Clark and Jean Colin, with Rikki Fulton as a poacher in his first film role.
The few residents of Laxdale who own cars are refusing to pay their road fund licence because of the poor state of the only road which links them to the rest of Scotland. A parliamentary delegation including Samuel Pettigrew, M.P. (Huntley) and Andrew Flett (Mackay) is dispatched to the Scottish Highlands to quell the rebellion. Along the way they encounter resistance from school teacher Morag McLeod (Scales, in her first film) and her roguish dad, Roderick McLeod (Clark).
With a brief appearance by Rikki Fulton in his film debut as a salmon poacher there's plenty of action and laughter. Filmed amongst the beautiful scenery of Applecross, "Laxdale Hall" is not to be missed.
Also features drama The Glen Is Ours (1946), a timeless parable of politicians at odds with the will of their electorate. Recently de-mobbed Hector Andrews takes to the hustings to stop Cadisburn Glen being sold and converted from a beauty spot into an amusement park.
First released: Monday 5th April 2010
DVD- Distributor: Panamint Cinema
- Region: 2
- Discs: 1
- Catalogue: PCM6001
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