The Knox Oil and Gas Company lives in the top of a huge Houston skyscraper, thousands of miles from the North Sea oil - and light years away from the sleepy Scottish seaside village it wants to buy, raze and replace with refineries and deep-water docks. Knox sends its ace deal-maker and chief negotiator to handle the negotiations. But instead of encountering stiff local resistance, he finds cheerful prospective millionaires, beautiful northern lights, and a mermaid with webbed toes.
Directed by
Bill Forsyth
Written by
Bill Forsyth
Starring
Burt Lancaster (Felix Happer); Peter Riegert (Mac); Fulton Mackay (Ben); Denis Lawson (Urquhart); Norman Chancer (Moritz); Peter Capaldi (Oldsen); Rikki Fulton (Geddes); Alex Norton (Watt); Jenny Seagrove (Marina); Jennifer Black (Stella); Christopher Rozycki (Victor); Gyearbuor Asante (Rev Macpherson (as Christopher Asante)); John M. Jackson (Cal (as John Jackson)); Dan Ammerman (Donaldson); Tam Dean Burn (Roddy). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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