William McBain

Movies

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
Sergeant Scott (as William MacBain)
This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.
Man to Man
Angus
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
Flowers of the Forest
Frank
Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become convinced that the children are part of a ritual child abuse network, the small community is thrown into disarray.
It Could Happen to Anybody
John McLeod
"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.
Four in a Million
The offstage lives of four club performers who are staying in the same guest house and rubbing their illusions and disillusions together after-hours.