Plot
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.
Cast
as Felix Happer
as Mac
as Urquhart
as Ben
as Oldsen
as Stella
as Marina
as Moritz
as Geddes
as Watt
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Reviews
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 …
**Slow, with boring characters and dialogues and a disjointed script, this film does not justify the “hype” around it.** This is one of those indie films that has won over a legion of self-confessed admirers. It's a film that everyone speaks highly of, as if it were a solid masterpiece. I didn't know that when I saw it for the first time, so I saw it without a lot of expectations. I'm glad I d…