Western fans can enjoy a special saddle-blazing double-screening of two cowboy movies filmed entirely in the north-east this month.
Trail to Tranquility and Trouble Again in Tranquility will premier on Saturday, November 14 at Aberdeen’s Belmont Cinema.
The films, made this year at the Tranquility Wild West Town attraction near Huntly, feature all the expected gun duels, fist fights and drinking bouts.
But instead of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, the films starred a host of local people who donned Stetsons and picked up their six-shooters for the 40-minute long pieces.
Alistair Baranowski, who founded the village in 2005, recruited award-winning director Paul Vernon for the shoots.
He said: “It was a gruelling four days for the main participants but the Adrenalin kept us all going. Cast and crew totalled about 40.
“One walk-on extra travelled from Glasgow while a western re-enactor and enthusiast travelled up from the south of England – it paid dividends for him as he eventually got a substantial acting role.”
Some of the cast will attend the premier, dressed in their western attire to get viewers in the mood before the screening even begins.
The appropriately named Dallas King, manager at the Belmont Picturehouse, said screening locally made films was a speciality of the cinema.
He said: “We’re that kind of cinema that likes to celebrate local people putting in the effort of making a film by putting it up on the big screen.”
The films will be shown back-to-back at the Belmont at 9.45am and 11am.