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Title: LEGEND OF BARNEY THOMSON

Reference number: 13899

Date: 2015

Director: d. Robert Carlyle

Sponsor: Creative Scotland

Production company: Westerkirk Capital Inc., Creative Scotland and Téléfilm Canada

Sound: sound

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 95.53 mins

Description: Barney Thomson - awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber - lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer. [Synopsis taken from BBC website, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c8fb, last accessed 26/10/2021]

Catalogued from secondary sources including BFI archive, Creative Scotland and the BBC website.

BAFTA Scotland 2015 Winner Best Feature Film & Best Actress (Emma Thompson).

An Adaptation of Douglas Lindsay’s 1999 novel, The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson, the film was shot in various spots across the east end of Glasgow including Bridgeton Cross, the Barrowlands, Red Road flats, and the Saracen’s Head pub.