The image here is the cover of the Criterion Collection
Riffing on popular representations of Scottish life and folklore, Local Hero follows the Texas oil executive Mac (Peter Riegert), who is dispatched by his crackpot boss (Burt Lancaster) to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens—and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
The film was released in 1983, but I didn't see it for a few years. I caught it one Christmas Eve or Christmas Day from memory and it made an immediate impact.
The soundtrack was by Mark Knopfler.
The end credits of the film feature the track 'Going Home'. "Going Home", is played before every home game of Newcastle United F.C.
See my separate post on music played by football teams as they walk out.
Here it is being played live:
One of the stars of the film is the location: the houses which are tucked along a coast road. The actual village is called Pennan. The famous phone box has a preservation order on it.
There are so many memorable moments in this film. Why not give it a watch?
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