Local Hero

Local Hero

Director

Bill Forsyth

Producer

David Puttnam

Cast

Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson

Running Time

111 minutes

Year of Production

1983

Genre(s)

Comedy

When Texan oil developers try to buy up a small Scottish fishing village for their North Sea oil base, the canny residents give the Americans more than they bargained for.


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