Sleeper Double Features

root for them to succeed. Helped immeasurably by the leads' real and funny performances, this film about losers is a winner.

Great Scots
I Know Where I'm Going and Local Hero
If the chilly seas of Scotland don't cool off your summertime sweats (and make you want to pack your bags and move on over), nothing will. Michael Powell's I Know is an utterly charming romance, with Wendy Hiller as a young lass betrothed to a rich old man she's never met, who heads to a remote Scottish isle to wed him. But complications arise when she meets a dashing young local lad and... well, the plot is only a small part of this eloquent and lyrical film, which is part romance, part comedy, part suspense, with even a dash of the supernatural thrown in. Bill Forsyth's Local Hero continues in that tradition, but in this case the fish out of water is an American oil man (Peter Riegert) and he's sent with even more cynical intentions - to buy a small Scottish town in order to convert it to an oil refinery. Full of surprises and quirky but real characters, this often hilarious movie proved that comedy could be gentle and, like the other film, lyrical, without being schmaltzy. The contrasts between modern urban life and the unspoiled landscape has never been better captured. Features one of Burt Lancaster's finest roles, too.

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