Film deserves better
Published Date:
14 October 2008
I deplore Alistair Harkness's sneering review (10 October) of Charles Martin Smith's film Stone of Destiny. For me, the film convincingly and accurately brings to life a remarkable episode in Scottish history.
It makes vivid the improbability of the success of that risky and difficult escapade, and the courage as well as the extraordinary luck of those who brought it off. It also conveys the spirit of 1950 rather well.
I speak from my own memory and as one with a family interest in the accuracy of the record. The Scotland of "The Stone" is one in which I take deep pride, while recoiling from the cringing negativity of the Harkness review.
(PROF) SIR NEIL MacCORMICK
Pentland Terrace
Edinburgh
The full article contains 122 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
13 October 2008 8:42 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
