Event Type: Film
The Maggie
DATE:
Tue 14 February
TIME:
7:30PM
PRICE:
£6, Free for Tweeddale Society members and schoolchildren
DESCRIPTION:
Enjoy a rare chance to see this 1954 Ealing comedy based on the Para Handy tales.
TWEEDDALE SOCIETY presents A Valentine’s Day Film
The Maggie
This 1954 Ealing comedy is based on Neil Munro’s Para Handy tales. A hard-nosed US businessman needs cargo shipped to his new home on a Scottish island. He thinks a ship has been commissioned to do the work but finds he has unwittingly hired the captain of an old west coast puffer – The Maggie. As the businessman tries to get out of the contract he is out witted by the wily crew led by Captain Mactaggart.
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