Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Robert J. Maxwell Geordie grows up from a stunted weakling into a braw man with shoulders on him like an ox and a set of regional allegiances to match. He's no long Wee Geordie. He's Geordie who excels at the kind of Scottish sports that require great skill and delicacy, like throwing a hammer and tossing a telephone pole around.He's a quiet guy though, not a braggart or a competitor. He has a loving mother who urges him to stay strong by eating his oatmeal, er, porridge. He has a cute girl friend too, who inspires him to compete without ever really trying to. Alistair Sim in the Laird on whose land Geordie is the happy gamekeeper.A couple of English sports promoters or impresarios or whatever they're called learn of Geordie's skill at the hammer throw and the community swells with pride as the lad is whisked off to Australia to compete in the Olympics. As in "Chariots of Fire", there's a spot of trouble over a principle: Geordie's wearing his father's kilt during the event. There's also a brief misunderstanding concerning a blond female Danish shot putter who finds Geordie attractive and is not afraid of demonstrating her affection in public. All the troubles and contretemps are quickly taken care of.It's a charming story. The people of Geordie's lands are human and friendly in their reserved way, only I wish they hadn't made that crack about its being necessary for Geordie to win the prize back from those cops from Glasgow, that having been my Grand Dad's profession. The photography of the glens and lochs is sumptuous. A Kelpie could be hidden behind the ferns and gorse. Scotland has never looked quite so pretty. Geordie's family's humble stone cottage is painted a pleasing egg shell white. And the local folk in their multilayered tweeds look entirely comfortable in the clear and chilly wind.The film has its weak moments. The first half, with Geordie and his neighbors frolicking in the glens and on the bens is extremely engaging. The second half, dealing with the Olympics, rather drags. Geordie is losing at the hammer throw but at the last moment he has an epiphany. He imagines that he is not in Australia at all but back in the highlands and his girl is whistling encouragement to him from a nearby hill. POW -- the Olympic record is broken, and Rocky gets up from the canvas and floors his obnoxious opponent.But in the end, it's one of those movies that you watch in delight and, when it's over, wistfully wonder what it would be like to live in Geordie's world, unbothered by Twitters and Tweets.

rlw-9 What a delightful movie, with a positive story that promotes the power of hard work and following your dreams, but without trampling on everyone else. It is interesting how political issues of the time are intertwined rather naturally into the storyline. The plot stopped well short of being twee (which I expected) and I loved the line about Helga being less into heather than "come heather".Two things that struck me: the way Geordie showed us what the Scotsman was wearing under his kilt when he fell backward in the row-boat; and I may have been mistaken, but did the first aid given to the car accident victim include a cigarette???? There was a brief glimpse of him being attended to and I am sure I saw something hanging out of his mouth. Perhaps it was a thermometer.

sliderzuk I do not think it is necessary to put a shallow political spin on this charming film. The film basically follows two plots - one is the boy from a poor background who has a goal of changing himself for the better, and eventually represents his country in the Commonwealth Games in Australia. The other plot is the boy meets girl, falls in love, meets another in Australia - original girl hears about it - gets jealous - he comes home and makes up. All the while a great cast fleshes out some wonderful characters in the Highlands - and it is great to hear Highland accents for a change - against a backdrop of wonderful scenery and some fantastic gaelic choral singing; beautiful, too, for its rarity in film. Bill Travers, early in his career - and just under a decade away from Born Free - gives a spirited performance and is highly endearing in the part. All of this old world Highland Scots seems like a world away from now, but the basic story holds up, and, thank goodness, it was made in colour to show up the Highlands at their best.

remcinnis I agree with other comments that this needs to be brought back in VHS. It is a good movie that the whole family can enjoy. It has many memorable scenes. My favorite is when Geordie and some other Olympic atheletes lift a car off a person trapped under it. Any kid that has flipped through a comic and seen a Charles Atlas ad for body building will instantly connect with "Wee Geodie".