The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1974)

8.0/10 • 90 min • Drama Music Comedy History TV Movie Documentary

Overview

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

Various

Alex Norton

Various

Bill Paterson

Various

John McGrath

Various

James Cosmo

Loch

Kenneth Benda

Duke

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