Quote Originally Posted by Jack Daw View Post
I have the movie on VHS tape as I cannot find a dvd version, yet. I think its a wonderful movie. Do I guess right that the sing-songy accents used in the movie are genuine to the Outer Hebrides?
That accent used to be typical of most of the Islands (though Lewis and Harris sound more like The Cook from The Muppet Show), but in some (like Islay, Skye, Mull) there have been a lot of incomers over the last few decades and many of them won't make any effort to learn the Gaelic which was probably the source of the accent. I don't think, however, that any of the actors in the movie came from the Islands (although Sir Compton Mackenzie lived, and is buried, on Barra) - the nearest was Glasgow (Gordon Jackson and Duncan Macrae).