Meg Buchanan

The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim to a cave-in, trapping some one hundred workers. Rescue parties are formed as the tremulous families of the miners wait in agony. As in the actual incident upon which this film is based, the rescue is nip and tuck and times, but eventually successful. The faces of real-life Scottish mining folk are melded with the professional actors in The Brave Don't Cry, adding poignancy to this otherwise cut-and-dried film.

Les pauvres, les personnes âgées - et les rusés, quand il s'agit de séparer ceux qui peuvent se le permettre de leur argent - le skipper écossais d'un vieux bateau "puffer" en panne trompe un magnat américain en le payant pour transporter sa cargaison personnelle. Lorsque le magnat apprend l'astuce, il tente de retrouver le bateau et de retirer ses biens.

A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.