#Angus MacInnes

[genevieveetguy]

. - Your sister says you don't have a family. - No, I don't. - She thinks that you ought to get married and have children of your own, instead of trying to be a father to hers. - Yeah. - Except she thinks you are afraid of the responsibility. - That's interesting... anything else? - She thinks you like policing because you think you are right about everything and you're the only one who can do anything, and when you drink a lot of beer you say things like 'none of the other police know a crook from a bag of elbows!'. At least I think that's what she said.

Witness, Peter Weir (1985)

[olivierdemangeon]

FLIGHT OF FURY (2007) ★★★☆☆

FLIGHT OF FURY (2007) ★★★☆☆

[scotianostra]

On December 2nd 1971 the last two permanently resident families leave the island of Scarp, off Harris in the Western Isles.

It was 52 years ago this week that the last native residents evacuated the island of Scarp with a family leaving on a small boat packed with furniture as their two cows swam behind them. The departure of Mr and Mrs Angus MacInnes and their two sons marked the end of an era on the island which was home to more than 200 people in the late 19th Century.

A newspaper report documented the exit of the MacInnes family, who came ashore half-a-mile away at Hushinish Beach on Harris before settling on a croft at Govig.

The article, printed in the Press and Journal, noted how the island was then “left to the Old Etonians” given its remaining residents were Andrew Miller Mundy, whose father once owned the North Harris Estate, and his school friend Andrew Cox, who temporarily moved to the island earlier that year with his wife and their baby, India.

After the MacInnes family left, life on Scarp continued for several more weeks until a heavy storm cut the island off with provisions running ‘dangerously low’. Mundy, in London at the time, sent a helicopter in to rescue his girlfriend, a model who he later married, with food also choppered into Scarp - just in time for Christmas.

Mundy later relocated permanently to Harris, trained himself to catch lobsters and worked the waters around St Kilda for a decade. He became a popular figure to many, representing Harris at council level for many years and was admired for his dedication to wildlife and conservation. Scarp, meanwhile, has seen little human life since the early 1970s. Those who inherited the island’s crofting rights still keep sheep on Scarp with rams taken over for tupping and lambs returned to Stornoway for sale in September.

The ruins of several old buildings remain scattered over the island with a handful of holiday homes bringing in visitors from time to time.

From a high of over 200 the population of Scarp was still a relatively healthy 100-150 at the turn of the 20th Century. The island is rocky and the north part is over 300m in height with a steep drop to the sea. The village, which is now in serious disrepair is located in the south-east corner where it is partly sheltered from the Atlantic winds. The only land capable of cultivation is near the village on the east coast. The local economy would have been very basic - potatoes, cabbages, oats, milk, fish. Billingsgate market in London would have been the destination for much of the lobster caught by the Scarp fishermen.

The village on Scarp had no electricity and the only means of illumination would have been oil lamps. There was piped water and the village did have a small shop. The telephone line was installed in 1947. Despite these few basic comforts Scarps population like so many other small islands around Scotland continued to decline. In 1966 the Church of Scotland refused to replace the lay preacher and a year later the village school closed. Two years later it was the Post Offices turn to close its doors for the last time and with it so ended all mail deliveries to and from the island.

As the islands infrastructure continued to deteriorate the next thing to go was the telephone cable. This was severed in a storm and the GPO simply refused to repair it. This was just about the last straw for the remaining islanders.

The people may have left but Scarp still gets mentioned in many a conversation to due the adventures of German rocket scientist Gerhard Zucher. The German boffin attempted to develop a rocket which could 'fire' mail from Scarp to Harris and vice versa. Unfortunately the first launch simply exploded on the spot. A second firing from Harris to Scarp was a success but the project was quickly forgotten....but still very much lingers in the legends and stories of Scarp.

Although there are no permanent residents, a handful of holiday homes still welcome visitors

[fanthatracks]

Fantha Tracks return to the fantastic Capital Sci-Fi Con as Paul McQue covered the event and this superb chat which saw the men behind Wedge Antilles and Jon 'Dutch' Vander - that's Denis Lawson and Angus MacInnes - discuss their time in the Star Wars galaxy on the original trilogy and the more recent films on this very special epsiode of Making Tracks. Capital Sci-Fi supports CHAS (Children's Hospices Across Scotland) and you can learn more about and support this amazing charity by following this link - www.chas.org.uk/ https://youtu.be/j7aFVzM7dck Remember to tune in to Good Morning Tatooine, LIVE Sunday evenings at 9.00pm UK, 4.00pm Eastern and 1.00pm Pacific on Facebook, X, YouTube and Twitch and check out our Fantha Tracks Radio Friday Night Rotation every Friday at 7.00pm UK for new episodes of The Fantha From Down Under, Planet Leia, Desert Planet Discs, Start Your Engines, Collecting Tracks, Canon Fodder and special episodes of Making Tracks, and every Tuesday at 7.00pm UK time for your weekly episode of Making Tracks. You can contact any of our shows and send in your listeners questions by emailing radio@fanthatracks.com or comment on our social feeds. Fantha Tracks Radio is the home of podcasts on FanthaTracks.com. You can contact any of our shows by emailing radio@fanthatracks.com; or comment on our social media on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, or Tumblr. Tune in on the platform of your choice below: Or find us on Smart Speakers such as Amazon Alexa, Apple HomePod, Google Home, and Sonos. We are also available in your car with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, on your gaming console, and television; and of course, you can find us on the Fantha Tracks App. For all the details on how to listen in and subscribe, check out our dedicated page for Fantha Tracks Radio. [amazon box="0593597958"]

[mclassdias]

I would like to thank Roger Christian for inviting me to be his guest at Retrocon. Where I was blessed to have dinner with Liza Ross, Garrick Hagon & Angus MacInnes (top left)

Had a nice chat with Warren Robinett! (Top right)

Received amazing advice from Frederick Owens (Middle right) & Bob Gurr (Bottom right) on their journey of life.

I am truly grateful and blessed to make friends and be amongst these legends!

Stay tuned for this vlog coming soon!

[scenesandscreens]

The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew (1983)

Directed by Rick Moranis & Dave Thomas, Cinematography by Steven Poster

"We'll always have our memories. The Colonel's dead. Here we are still enjoying his chicken."

[mariocki]

The Sender (1982)

"I said something stupid before, didn't I? About your parents?"

"You said I had a father."

"Did he leave you? Or die?"

"I never had a father."

"Like Jesus?"

"That's right. Like Jesus."

"That's gonna be a problem. There's this other guy here, he thinks he might be Jesus. What am I gonna tell him?"

[theories-of]

Angus MacInnes

[barkerverse]

HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II (1988)

Dir. Tony Randel

[abs0luteb4stard]

Watching

I waited years to watch this movie. And today here I am.

[minya8chan]

Vikings A King's Ransom

[kwebtv]

Angus MacInnes, Julia Bremermann, Indra Ové, Kourash Asad, Bruno Eyron, William Oliver and Judy Loe in “Space Island One”

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Hellbound:Hellraiser II (1988)

[oldschoolsciencefiction]

Happy birthday to Gold Leader himself, actor Angus MacInnes.

[fanthatracks]

Fantha Tracks return to the fantastic Capital Sci-Fi Con as Paul McQue covered the event and this superb chat which saw the men behind Wedge Antilles and Jon 'Dutch' Vander - that's Denis Lawson and Angus MacInnes - discuss their time in the Star Wars galaxy on the original trilogy and the more recent films on this very special epsiode of Making Tracks. Capital Sci-Fi supports CHAS (Children's Hospices Across Scotland) and you can learn more about and support this amazing charity by following this link - https://www.chas.org.uk/ Remember to tune in to Good Morning Tatooine, LIVE Sunday evenings at 9.00pm UK, 4.00pm Eastern and 1.00pm Pacific on Facebook, YouTube, X, Instagram and Twitch and check out our Fantha Tracks Radio Friday Night Rotation every Friday at 7.00pm UK for new episodes of The Fantha From Down Under, Planet Leia, Desert Planet Discs, Start Your Engines, Collecting Tracks, Canon Fodder and special episodes of Making Tracks, and every Tuesday at 7.00pm UK time for your weekly episode of Making Tracks. You can contact any of our shows and send in your listeners questions by emailing radio@fanthatracks.com or comment on our social media feeds: https://www.youtube.com/@FanthaTracksTV/ https://links.fanthatracks.com/ www.instagram.com/fanthatracks www.facebook.com/FanthaTracks www.twitter.com/FanthaTracks www.pinterest.co.uk/fanthatracks/ www.fanthatracks.tumblr.com/ www.tiktok.com/@fanthatracks www.twitch.tv/fanthatracks www.threads.net/@FanthaTracks

[ruleof3bobby]

STRANGE BREW (1983) Grade: C+

So silly you kinda have to like it. The slapstick humor still works and the comic timing between the two leads is perfect. Some jokes had me laughing hard at times. Good watch for comedy fans.