Word: wee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While they march and wheel, their cymbals whirling, their diced hose and white spats blurring in high-kneed unison, they play such lilting Scots tunes as Thistle Green and Wee MacGregor. On their heels, majestically slow, come 28 pipers and twelve drummers in a stunning rendition of standard Black Watch ceremonials. The Crimean Reveille starts with a single, furiously impatient bugle call that gives way to the pipes and drums skirling and moaning through The Soldier's Return and other wild pipe tunes-The Green Hills of Tyrol, King George V's Army, The Highland Laddie...
...Heart of the Matter, The Cruel Sea) and stage (Broadway's Ring Round the Moon): Virginia McKenna. 26, blonde British cinemactress (The Cruel Sea, The Barretts of Wimpole Street); after three years of marriage, no children; in an uncontested action, on grounds of adultery with strapping Cinemactor Bill (Wee Geordie) Travers; in London...
cause Cuff's wee niece stayed out all night...
...tragic flaw lies not in his character, but in the fact that he is only an "Acting Colonel." The War Office sends a man named Basil Barrow from London to take over the battalion. A "poor wee laddie," who is colder than Flora MacDonald,* he had spent the war in British intelligence. Which colonel will command the battalion-Jock or this Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers...
...other actors are also fitting, and if one excuses the sometimes unrealistic sequence of events, there is little to criticize in the peaceful atmosphere of Wee Geordie. 'Tis a braw film...