Trouble in the Glen is a comedy set in the Scottish Highlands and featuring Orson Welles as the new laird who seems to stir up some of the locals. He is from South America and has purchased of inherited the Highland Estate.

This film did ok at the British Box Office – it is packed with Film Stars of the time including none other than Orson Welles – plus Forrest Tucker, Margaret Lockwood, Victor McLaglen and John McCallum.

I have to say that I like this film

The film was shot in TruColor and it certainly looked good. Scottish Highland scenes are just made for Colour.

It was made at Elstree Film Studios for Republic Pictures  – with location filming in Perthshire

I remember seeing this at The Gaumont Cinema in St.Albans when very young – and remember bits of it.

My Brother and I went with My Uncle and Aunt who lived in the City – as we had gone on holiday to their home at the time which  we often did in the Summertime.  I loved it there.

In the Film Forrest Tucker’s Daughter who was crippled following Polio, is played by Margaret McCourt who had quite a busy career through the Fifties as a child actress – She was in The Invisible Man

ABOVE – Margaret McCourt in Trouble in the Glen

ABOVE – Margaret McCourt in The Invisible Man

Margaret McCourt, Margaret Lockwood and Forrest Tucker

Orson Welles

‘Trouble in the Glen’ was planned to attempt to replicate the success a few years earlier of Republic’s biggest hit “The Quiet Man” – same writer and same formula. It didn’t quite do that though

I don’t think that Orson Welles helped this film – he seemed well ‘over the top’ in his acting and stifled some of the actors around him – Victor McLaglen who had a prominent part in ‘The Quiet Man’ however could hold his own against him – but I am not sure that Forrest Tucker could.

Forrest Tucker came to England quite often to make films.

In the film he and Margaret Lockwood play the romantic leads.

A set of Stills from the film – I used to love these and gaze at them when passing the cinema on my way to School for whichever film was showing that week – sometimes two programmes per week though -in the town  I have seen better than these but nevertheless these are good examples of what we would see.

Forrest Tucker

Margaret Lockwood with Forrest Tucker

Trouble In the Glen

BELOW – Orson Wells

I did notice that Ann Goodrun was in this who later became Goodrun Ure. She appeared in a lot of films through the fifties when she was billed as Ann Goodrun – including this one