New film will shine a light on legendary Paisley Communist MP Willie Gallacher
dailyrecord.co.ukPaisley, Willie Gallacher, is being premiered online tomorrow. Renfrewshire Leisure’s internet channel, Ren TV, will show the 50-minute film, A Lion Rose in Paisley, on Wednesday at 7pm – 55 years to the day Gallacher died.The docudrama by local filmmaker, Alex Cathcart stars TV and film actor Steven Duffy as the left-wing firebrand Gallacher.The film also features Renfrewshire Council’s Labour leader Eddie Devine as the famous Tory Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.His fellow councillor, Bill Brown plays an MP asking a question in the Houses of Parliament.Paisley Abbey was used as the stand in for the Houses of Parliament while the Beechwood Community Centre in Shortroods was the setting for a stormy public meeting involving Gallacher and.
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