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)