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| Year |
1983 |
| First Published |
1983 |
| Amazon ID |
B000056APN |
| IMDB ID. |
tt0085859 |
| International Article Number |
0044007812020 |
Cast
- Peter Riegert as Mac
- Denis Lawson as Urquhart
- Fulton Mackay as Ben
- Peter Capaldi as Oldsen
- Jennifer Black as Stella
- Jenny Seagrove as Marina
- Burt Lancaster as Felix Happer
- Norman Chancer as Moritz
Information was most recently updated Thu Jun 19 17:39:49 2025
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.