The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain 1995
Directed by Christopher Monger
- Drama, Comedy, Romance
- 91 min
- PG
A romantic comedy about a town that wouldn't give up. A man who couldn't get out. And the mountain that brought them together.
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jan 20198/10
I don't want Ffynnon Garw to be on the map because we begged for it. The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is directed by Christopher Monger and written by Ivor Monger. It stars Hugh Grant, Ian McNeice, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney and Kenneth Griffith. Music is by Stephen Endelman and cinematography by Vernon Layton. Set in 1917, plot finds Grant and McNeice as two English cartographers who arrive in the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw to measure what the locals proudly proclaim to be Wales' first mountain. However, it turns out that the "mountain" is 16 feet below the required 1000 feet requisite so therefore can only be classed as a hill. This news causes disgust amongst the locals, who then set about stopping the cartographers going home whilst they attempt to build atop of the hill to make it over 1000 feet. A film with a big title that is matched by the size of its heart, Monger's film owes much to those fun community based pictures that filed out of Ealing Studios back in the 40s and 50s, Re: Whisky Galore! and The Titfield Thunderbolt. We can also safely place it the whimsy category where something as wonderful as Local Hero sits, while the old British co
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Cast
- Hugh GrantReginald Anson
- Tara FitzgeraldBetty
- Colm MeaneyMorgan the Goat
- Ian McNeiceGeorge Garrad
- Ian HartJohnny Shellshocked
- Kenneth GriffithReverend Jones
- Tudor VaughanThomas Twp
- Hugh VaughanThomas Twp Two
- Robert PughWilliams the Petroleum
- Robert BlytheIvor
Crew
- Christopher MongerDirector
- Christopher MongerScreenplay
- Vernon LaytonDirector of Photography
- Stephen EndelmanOriginal Music Composer
- David MartinEditor
- Sarah CurtisProducer
- Paul SaronyProducer
- Scott MaitlandProducer
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