Bone Hunter - a film with a theme. #AmazonPrime

The fans of Bone Hunter keep returning 14 years after the film was made. It seems the theme of the lone Warrior walking home to save his lands and family resonates along the Centuries.  Amazon Prime agrees because it groups the film in it's  'Warrior' Section, where it achieves a regular audience.

However another theme rests in the story that has it's own special coterie of Scottish fans due to the central subject of the film which is about the true legend of the bones of St Andrew. His relics were brought to Scotland by a Saint Regulus in the 4th Century AD, who left Patras in Greece after a dream to remove the bones to safety. His journey to flee the wrath of Emperor Constantine, brought Saint Regulus to Scotland and their final resting place Saint Andrews, after a ship wreck.

The film Bone Hunter takes up the tale at this point and proceeds to provide a hearty romp through the heather with grumpy Pictish tribes and angry Maidens in the Scottish mud.

Here are the characters Louis, played by Alan Torrance the good natured Pict, and Beith his wife in the story played by my good self, Mairi. The picture above was the original poster picture.

You can view the film on Amazon Prime in the UK here.
To view the film in the USA on Amazon Prime you can get it here
To view the film on Amazon Prime in Germany you can see it here
And to view it on Amazon Prime in Japan you can download it here

When it attracted the interest of distributors the poster soon became a fusion of all the pictures below.

James Watson in Highland gear. Some of the items were hand made like the shirt, which was sown by Isabelle Moffat, the film Director's Mum. Oh well, the linen was very authentic!

Above the Angle tribes make chase to meet Warrior Fingal. Their costumes and weapons were hired from the West Viking Society.

As well as James Watson, actor Michael Rodgers was the star of the show. Behind the scenes I remember fondly how both of them hid from a bat that had flown into the local accommodation. Fun and laughter at their terrified screams.

Oliver Cotton played Saint Regulus, while the Picts watch on in the background.

The Picts negotiate with Fingal to return the bones to him after they accidentally rescue them from the Angles.

Michael's character rescues the forlorn maidens in the mist played by Lydsey Baxter and Joanna Kate Rodgers.

That's it for now. Enjoy the film on #AmazonPrime https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bone-Hunter-James-Watson/dp/B06W5FKGVC