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A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Edgar K. Bruce
- McKellar
- (as Edgar Bruce)
Quinton McPherson
- Baillie Callender
- (as Quinton Macpherson)
- Directors
- Writers
- Bruno Frank
- James Bridie(Anglo-Scottish version)
- Ian Dalrymple
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaYoung Scots guy with a Glaswegian accent, who is Sir Rex Harrison's caddy, is a young Scottish actor called Jack Short (he didn't get a credit).
- GoofsDuring a break in the trail when Victoria told her father that she is not married, Provost Gow exclaims that she committed perjury, and this is apparently his motive to drop the case. However, Victoria did not commit perjury. Although she made the marriage claim within the courtroom, she was not in the witness box and was not under oath, having not been sworn in by the court clerk.
- Quotes
Frank Burdon: The people of these islands are the most long-suffering in the world - they'll put up anything: they'll pull in their belts if they think it's their duty, they'll even go to the ends of the earth to be blown to bits if necessary. But there's two things they won't put up with - bullying and cruelty.
- Crazy creditsIn keeping with the Scottish setting, the opening credits are shown on various Scottish plaids.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond (1990)
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A Hidden Gem
Hidden from me, anyhow - I'd never heard of it until browsing through my local library's video collection. Imagine an Ealing comedy as directed by Frank Capra. All of the acting is first-rate (and Vivien Leigh, pre-"Gone with the Wind", was about as beautiful as any woman could be), and the sets are unusually lavish for what must have been a medium-budget film in its time. The characters are strong yet sufficiently complex to lift the story above the simplistic comic melodrama it might have been - I can't imagine many American films of the time (or of this time) that would allow the "villain" of the piece enough courage to face down and walk through a mob that has just publicly humiliated him and is ready to attack him. The comedy is wonderfully handled, especially during the scene in which a pack of dogs runs rampant through the villain's stately home, and during the climactic courtroom scene. (The film's funniest line makes sense only in the context of the film: Ursula Jeans' anguished "Harold, he called me a woman!") "Storm in a Teacup" is a genuine delight.
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- davefrieze
- Mar 19, 2004
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- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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