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Overtoun
House has featured on both the small and big screen.
Leading
Roles
Overtoun
House featured prominently in the following productions:
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Regeneration
(1997)
Director:
Gilles MacKinnon
Synopsis:
A film adaptation of Pat Barker's novel, Regeneration
is a fictional account of shell-shocked soldiers recovering
from the horrors of WWI including Wilfred Owen and
Siegfriend Sassoon.
On Location: Overtoun House was used to portray
Craiglockhart Hospital, the stately home in which
the soldiers were convalescing (the real Craiglockhart
Hospital is now part of the Napier
University campus). Production designer Andrew
Harris renovated parts of the building to produce
darkened hospital interiors, although some of the
patients rooms were shot in a Glasgow studio.
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Tales
from the Madhouse (2001)
Set in a Victorian sanatorium
this series featured the stories of eight characters
whose lives were affected by their encounter with
Jesus of Nazerth. The characters included biblical
figures such as Barabarus and Judas, as well as fellow
prisioners and slaves. The series was shot on location
at Overtoun House and shown on the BBC around Easter.
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Supporting
Roles
Overtoun House can also
be glimpsed in the following productions:
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Glasgow
Kiss (2000)
A romantic drama set in
a Glasgow newspaper office the House was used in some
of the scenes from this BBC series.
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Murder
Rooms - The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (2001)
This BBC period detective
drama about Joseph Bell the inspiration for Arthur
Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Overtoun House was
used to portray some of the offices in the programme.
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Pyaar
Ishq aur Mohabbat (2001)
This musical Bollywood
movie by director Rajiv Rai centred around three men's
pursuit of a female medical student who comes to study
at Glasgow University. Overtoun House was just one
of the many Scottish locations used in the film.
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Days
that Shook the World (2003)
Overtoun House played
the role of Ipatiev
House in the episode detailing the execution of
the Russian royal family, the Romanovs, during the
Russian Revoltion. The episode was aired on 4th November
2003 on BBC2. On a features
page on the BBC website you can clearly see the
rear staircase of OH.
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Tartan
Shorts: This Old House (2003)
A 10 minute short film shown
on BBC1 on 28th December about three children who stay
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For more details on this films
goto
IMDb
(Internet Movies Database) and look at their
titles with location Overtoun House, West Dumbartonshire,
Scotland, UK
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