Country Dance | |
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Directed by | J. Lee Thompson |
Produced by | Robert Emmett Ginna |
Written by | James Kennaway |
Starring |
Peter O'Toole Susannah York Michael Craig |
Music by | John Addison |
Cinematography | Ted Moore |
Edited by | Willy Kemplen |
Release date
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22 April 1970 |
Running time
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112 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Country Dance (also known as Brotherly Love in the USA) is a 1970 British drama film based on the novel Household Ghosts (1961) by James Kennaway which became a three-act stage play in 1967. The film was released on 22 April 1970; it was directed by J. Lee Thompson.
A tragicomedy set in a fading Scottish aristocratic family, in which the drunken Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, Bt (Peter O'Toole) has an incestuous relationship with his equally eccentric sister Hilary Dow (Susannah York).
Kitchen scene was filmed at now derelict Castle Hotel (opposite Tormaukin Hotel Scotland FK14 7JY,