| Ring of Bright Water | |
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| Directed by | Jack Couffer |
| Written by | Jack Couffer Bill Travers |
| Based on | Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell |
| Produced by | Joseph Strick |
| Starring | Bill Travers Virginia McKenna |
| Cinematography | Wolfgang Suschitzky |
| Edited by | Reginald Mills |
| Music by | Frank Cordell Betty Botley Theme song performed by Val Doonican |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Rank Film Distributors (United Kingdom)[1] Cinerama Releasing Corporation (United States) |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$915,000[2] |
| Box office | US$2,400,000[2] |
Ring of Bright Water is a 1969 British comedy-drama film directed by Jack Couffer and starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna.[3] It is a story about a Londoner and his pet otter living on the Scottish coast. The story is fictional, but is adapted from the 1960 autobiographical book of the same name by Gavin Maxwell.[4] It featured the stars of Born Free (1966), another film about a close relationship between humans and a wild animal.
- ^ "Ring of Bright Water (1969)". BBFC. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ a b "ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses". Variety. Los Angeles. 31 May 1973. p. 3.
- ^ "Ring of Bright Water". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
- ^ Maxwell, Gavin (1960). Ring of Bright Water. Illustrated by Peter Scott, Michael Ayrton and Robin McEwen. London: Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd. Paperback reissue: (1984) ISBN 0-14-003923-6.