Film Locations

*

When Eight Bells Toll

The thriller writer Alastair MacLean wrote the 1965 novel and the screen play for the 1971 action film 'When Eight Bells Toll', starring Anthony Hopkins and Jack Hawkins. READ MORE

*

Kidnapped

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson which was actually set on the tidal island of Erraid, just of the south west tip of Mull. Robert Louis Stevenson spent many holidays on Erraid as his father and grandfather were Lighthouse Engineers. READ MORE

*

The Eye of the Needle

Eye of the Needle is a spy thriller novel written by British author Ken Follett which was made into a film in 1981 starring Donald Sutherland, Christopher Cazanove and Kate Nelligan. READ MORE

*

Entrapment

This 1999 romantic thriller starred Catherine Zeta-Jones as an investigator who works for a top insurance agency and Sean Connery as an international art thief who likes a challenge! READ MORE

*

I Know Where I'm Going

Most of the film was shot on the island and the Scottish inhabitants and their customs are strikingly portrayed. The whole atmosphere of the film is animate with the sound of violent storms and crashing waves on the rocky coast, not forgetting the haunting abandoned castles and the whining of the bagpipes! READ MORE