Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down

1966
28m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Everyone thinks Jeannie MacTaggart is a ghost when she arrives back in town after a visit to Glasgow. Her visiting twin who died during a visit and they thought it was her. So she goes about... Read allEveryone thinks Jeannie MacTaggart is a ghost when she arrives back in town after a visit to Glasgow. Her visiting twin who died during a visit and they thought it was her. So she goes about proving who she is and restoring her name.Everyone thinks Jeannie MacTaggart is a ghost when she arrives back in town after a visit to Glasgow. Her visiting twin who died during a visit and they thought it was her. So she goes about proving who she is and restoring her name.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Photos

More like this

6.9

6.7

6.5

4.6

6.3

There Was a Young Lady

6.2

Here Come the Huggetts

6.5

6.5

7.0

6.1

8.0

6.4

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
The film brings together two stars of BBC TV's popular long-running (and bankable) Scottish medical series Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962): Barbara Mullen and Eric Woodburn (housekeeper Janet MacPherson and Dr. Snoddie respectively).

Goofs
As Jeannie creeps towards the castle to steal the tiara, she wears black as owls hoot on the soundtrack, suggesting (as does the script) that it's the middle of the night. However, it's clearly broad daylight, perhaps indicating that a day-for-night filter was neglected to be used on the camera.

Crazy credits
Opening credits list Chairene Productions present "A Screen Miniature"

User reviews8

Review

Featured review

5/10

Genteel Scottish comedy short

MISS MACTAGGART WON'T LIE DOWN is a short comic effort from prolific director Francis Searle, here working at the tail-end of his career. It's a genteel effort with a Scottish setting about a kindly old woman who arrives in her home town to find that she's technically dead (her twin sister died and was mistaken for her).

The old lady becomes increasingly frustrated by the lack of recognition and turns to crime to regain her identity. Although the running time is just 30 minutes, there's a lot of incident packed into the length of this short feature and it's quite amusing too. The cast are obviously enjoying themselves and who are we to criticise them? This picture tends to be a lot funnier than Searle's other short efforts from the period.