
Jungle Fever
1991


44 votes
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
Director
Richie AdamsWriters
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Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
$21K

With the Great War fast approaching, this story focusses on the young "Kirsty" (Hermione Corfield) who is well and truly enamoured of the slightly bookish "Murdo" (Will Fletcher). Their formal courtship follows all of the traditions of the Hebridean customs with due deference paid to the minister and the rules of the kirk. They do plan to marry, everyone expects and approves of that - but then the island's young men are conscripted. Individually, they might be posted anywhere but if they join up together, though, then they will be posted together - so a road dance is arranged to help send them…
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