Every actor is excellent in this film, and this includes the taunting bullies when Geordie is a boy they are also good when when they gawk at Geordie the conquering hero comes home. The message is simple, the film elegant in conveying it.
I watched Wee Geordie out of curiosity but found so much more than that. The story centres around a small rural Scottish boy who was teased and ridiculed at school because of his small stature and who took growth tablets to aid his physical development.
A number of others describe "Wee Geordie" well -- as a charming film. Based on a 1955 novel, "Geordie," by Sottish author David Walker, it's a nice country story of a young boy who grows up to be an Olympic champion.
Lovely looking landscape in early scenes.Should be watched by today's athletes - HE didn't need steroids!
It's hardly "Local Hero" but this Scottish-set comedy from the Launder and Gilliat team is still a charmer. Bill Travers is the game-keeper's son who is entered for the Melbourne Olympics as a hammer-thrower but insists on wearing his kilt.
Its rather disappointing to find the film billed (cough) about Hammer Throwing is in reality along the lines of How A Scot Won the 1954 World Cup for England in a Kilt (Football): Alas, the whole story is a wee twee Fantasy and it would have been nice to see some sort of caption to this effect.The film comes on like a Scotophile's view of the world, in every way like those tacky postcards one may resort to with a Scotty Dog and a fellow in a Kilt o'er looking a loch in bright sunshine when all else fails.
Alastair Sim is the laird of the manor in this bucolic regional film produced in time for the Olympic Games in Melbourne.
I was born in 1954 and saw this movie when I was very small. This stuck with me forever.
*** THIS COMMENT MAY CONTAIN A SPOILER*** this film is one of the best I have seen from that era in fact from a lot of era's . the tale of a wee skinny Scots lad growing up to represent us in the Olympics in the hammer throwing is fantastic , its a movie all the family can enjoy from wee skinny Scots lads to strapping men from all over the globe , nobody can fail to love it .
