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The Shutter Falls

9.019871h MovieDramaTV Movie

A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls.

DirectorPeter Barber-Fleming
WriterN.M. MacDonald
ProducersTom Kinninmont·Norman McCandlish

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Cast · Directed by Peter Barber-Fleming

AHAnthony Higgins
Anthony Higgins
Alexander Watson
EGEmer Gillespie
Emer Gillespie
Ceit
SGStella Gonet
Stella Gonet
Mairi
MM
Mary McInnes
Christina
ESEwan Stewart
Ewan Stewart
Donald MacLeod
BRBilly Riddoch
Billy Riddoch
Jim Flett
JS
Joan Scott
Nurse Patterson
HM
Hugh Martin
Cooper
GS
Gerry Slevin
Curer
LMLeonard Maguire
Leonard Maguire
Gaelic Minister
IG
Iain Glass
Gaelic Skipper
MT
Madeleine Taylor
Singer

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The Shutter Falls hasn't started streaming in India yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around November 4, 1987. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.