The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

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Genre: Drama Music Comedy History TV Movie
Release year: 1974
Running time: 90 min
Country: United Kingdom

In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags.