Local Hero (1983)
Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish villiage to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.
Books with substantial mentioning of Local Hero
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Kathryn Bernheimer The 50 Funniest Movies of All Time, A Critic's Ranking Secaucus, NJ, 1999 |
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| Jonathan Hacker and David Price Take 10, Contemporary British Film Directors Oxford, New York, 1992 |
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| Frank N. Magill (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989 Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990 |
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David Fury The Cinema History of Burt Lancaster Minneapolis, MN, 1989 |
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| Frank N. Magill (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 1984, A Survey of 1983 Films Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1984 pp. 206-211 
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Reviews
| John Calhoun, Local Hero, in: Films in Review, vol. 34, 1983 pp. 242 |
