AULD TAM McGUIRE

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Title: AULD TAM McGUIRE

Reference number: 2144

Date: 1951*

Director: d. Alan Harper

Production company: Campbell Harper Films Ltd.

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 14.00 mins

Description: The dramatised enactment of a comic poem. [Tam McGuire is played by Duncan Macrae.]

Credits: comm. w. Duncan McLaren
sd. W.T. MacLean
cam. Henry Cooper, Gordon Mackay
comm. s. Tom Smith
m. Dr. Tom McCourt
cast Duncan Macrae with members of Dundee Repertory and Dundee Dramatic Society

Shotlist: Credits (.44) Dramatised enactment of comic poem. Tam McGuire's house and farm burn down. Tam claims against his insurance, but there are doubts as to the truth of how the fire started (13.47)