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Left: A prehistoric carved rock from Scotland (line drawing after photo in Robert Dixon's Mathographics)Human culture in the nort
h of the British Isles goes back at least as far as The Stone Age, according to C. R. Wickham-Jones in Scotland's First Settlers (ISBN 0713474610).
The largest artistic legacy was left by those called The Picts, profiled by Lloyd and Jenny Laing
in The Picts and the Scots (ISBN 0750906774).
Later balladeers
also made their mark, and early Christian legends of the banishment of
serpents live on in the form of Nessie, the Great Glen of the Highland's
invisible tourist attraction.
Loch Ness
(1995) Ted Danson plays a jaded American scientist with a romantic-comedy thing for Scotswoman Joely Richardson, whose little girl would rather go Nessie-hunting.
(Still in post-production)
Quentin Durward
(1955) Robert Taylor plays Sir Walter Scott's hero, dashing through Gothic France, wooing a girl he was supposed to bring home for his uncle, and swooping past his aversaries on a burning rope!
101 min., Color, not available
The Secret of the Loch
(1934) David Lean served as editor, for
this
early sound thriller. Heggie (Seymour Hicks) is a scientist convinced
ol' Nessie is a dinosaur, because outsiders "can never know the loch as
we know it."
72 min., B/W, $19.95
Tam-Lin
(1972) Anglo-Scot Roddy McDowall's first and only feature, for which he prepared during his second career as a portrait photographer. Ava Gardner keeps a young male harem in this obscure reference, later retitled The Devil's Widow.
107 min., Color, Rated PG, not available
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