An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Felix Happer
"Mac" MacIntyre
Gordon Urquhart
Ben Knox
Danny Oldsen
Stella Urquhart
Marina
Moritz
Geddes
Burt Lancaster is the multi-millionaire oil magnate "Felix Happer" who despatches one of his minions (Peter Riegert) to Scotland to buy up a village to turn it into an oil refinery. Once he arrives, he is taken for a bit of a ride by the canny locals as they try to milk him for as much cash as they can. In the days before cell phones; he has to call his boss from the phone box reporting his lack of progress and some astronomical sightings until eventually Happer comes over himself and immediately strikes up a rapport with Fulton Mackay who lives on the beach (and who is steadfastly refusing to...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$4,200,000.00
Revenue $5,900,000.00