The Brothers

IMDb link: 0174521
IMDb rating: 6.8 (196 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: David MacDonald
Cast: Maxwell Reed, Finlay Currie, Patricia Roc, Will Fyffe and others

Release date: 7 Jul 1947
Release year: 1947
Runtime: 98 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: gainsborough melodrama, gothic drama, melodrama, scotland, skye, year 1900, period drama, scottish island, island, revenge

Plot:

The McFarishes and the Macraes are lifelong enemies living on a remote island in the Western Isles of Scotland. Mary Lawson is a Scottish orphan brought up in a convent who arrives on the weekly steamer to come and work as a servant to the Macraes. Mary is warned that she must have no dealings with the McFarish family but living a lonely life she encourages the friendship of Will McFarish, with tragic consequences.

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