ISLE OF VOICES
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Title: ISLE OF VOICES
Reference number: 7510
Date: 1994
Director: d. David Cairns
Sponsor: Lothian Regional Council and ADK Searching Services Ltd. and completed with the assistance of the Scottish Film Production Fund
Production company: Caspian Productions
Sound: sound
Original format: 35mm
Certificate: 15
Colour: col
Fiction: fiction
Running time: 27.40 mins
Description:
A foolish young man confronts his father-in-law, a powerful and wealthy sorceror, and finds himself stranded on an enchanted island. A gripping tale of greed, stupidity and the supernatural, based on the short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. "A comic horror flick that never loses its sense of fun, thanks to Moray Hunter's goofy hero and Graham Crowden's crackpot wizard" [synopsis from Scottish Screen Catalogue of Short Films 1993 - 1999 "Kicking up a Storm"]
Production file held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. See also ref. 7912.
Credits:
In Robert Louis Stevenson's
Cast
Cameron Moray Hunter
Jean Blythe Duff
Mackay Graham Crowden
Marie Simone Lahbib
Mr Cannibal Harry Glass
Mrs Cannibal Anna Hepburn
Cannibal Kev Steve McNicoll
Cannibal Ken Ricky Callan
Cannibal Kas Harry Crowden
Film stock Kodak
Film processing Metrocolor
Camera equipment GHS
Catering Le Bistro
Security FPC Security
Editing facility Skyline
Recording Studios Hart Street Studios
Dubbing Theatre Scottish Television
Dolby Encoding Worldwide Sound
With thanks to Biggar Museum Trust, Biggar Theatre Workshop, David MacDonald Printers, Diehard Drama Publishers, East Lothian Council, ECS Antiques, Gilmerton Community Centre, Homeworthy, Ian Leslie, Keith Johnson & Pelling, Morrison Love, MW Brunsdon, Noble Leisure, Pinnacle Vodaphone, Scottish Building Society, Still Life, Utilities, Condor Van Hire, W. Aikman, Weather Watchers and Betty Reeves, Colin Cavers, Dave Sutton, David Meek, Derek Livesy, Finlay Cairns, George Carlaw, Jan Henderson, Jimmie Robertson, John Shirley, Mr & Mrs Elliot, Simon Phillips
Filmed on location at Portobello Beach and Tower, Gullane Beach, Inch Community Centre, Ladbrokes Gilmerton, Hamilton Estates, Edinburgh College of Art
Special thanks to Fiona Watson, Nieves Larranaga, James Anderson, Invergordon Distillers, Edinburgh District Arts Council. Made with the financial assistance of Lothian Regional Council and ADK Searching Services Ltd. BSIS Award Winner and completed with the assistance of the Scottish Film Production Fund.
Caspian Productions and Caspian IOV © 1994