| On the Black Hill | |
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| Directed by | Andrew Grieve |
| Produced by | Jennifer Howarth |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Thaddeus O'Sullivan |
| Edited by | Scott Thomas |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £639,000[1] |
On the Black Hill is a 1987 film directed by Andrew Grieve, based upon the novel of the same name by Bruce Chatwin.[2]
Although Bruce Chatwin initially considered his novel about 80 years of rural family life in the Welsh border country unfilmable, he changed his mind when he saw how keen director Andrew Grieve was to make it and they went together to see some of the places and meet some of the people that Chatwin had been inspired by. Chatwin told Grieve to use the book for his film and make it his own.[3]
- ^ "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 27.
- ^ "On The Black Hill (1987)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ Grieve, Andrew: "Revisiting the Black Hill", booklet accompanying Film First's February 2008 release of the DVD.