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	\| name = The Bridal Path		\| name = The Bridal Path
	\| image = ~~"The_Bridal_Path"_~~(~~1959_film~~).jpg		\| image = The Bridal Path (1959 film).jpg
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	==Critical reception==		==Critical reception==
	''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "''Bridal Path'' does not take any unexpected turns but a viewer can have a nice time and some giggles along the way."~~{{citation needed\|date=July 2022}}~~		''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "''Bridal Path'' does not take any unexpected turns but a viewer can have a nice time and some giggles along the way."

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	{{IMDb title\|0052649\|The Bridal Path}}		{{IMDb title\|0052649\|The Bridal Path}}

	~~{{Launder and Gilliat}}~~

	{{DEFAULTSORT:Bridal Path, The}}		{{DEFAULTSORT:Bridal Path, The}}

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{{short description|1959 film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Bridal Path
| image = "The_Bridal_Path"_(1959_film).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = British 1-sheet poster
| director = [[Frank Launder]]
| producer = {{ubl|[[Sidney Gilliat]]|Frank Launder}}
| writer = {{ubl|[[Nigel Tranter]]|Frank Launder|[[Geoffrey Willans]]}}
| narrator =
| music = [[Cedric Thorpe Davie]]
| cinematography = [[Arthur Ibbetson]]
| editing = [[Geoffrey Foot (film editor)|Geoffrey Foot]]
| starring = {{ubl|[[Bill Travers]]|[[George Cole (actor)|George Cole]]|[[Bernadette O'Farrell]]}}
| distributor = [[British Lion Film Corporation]]
| released = 5 August 1959
| runtime = 95 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
}}

'''''The Bridal Path''''' is a 1959 [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Frank Launder]] and starring [[Bill Travers]], [[George Cole (actor)|George Cole]] and [[Bernadette O'Farrell]].<ref>{{cite web
|url= https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a65f67d
|title= The Bridal Path
|publisher= British Film Institute
|website= bfi.org.uk
|access-date= 8 July 2022
}}</ref> It is based on the 1952 [[Bridal Path (novel)|novel of the same name]] by [[Nigel Tranter]].<ref>{{cite book
|last= Goble
|first= Alan
|title= The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film
|year= 2011
|orig-date= 1999
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&q=the+bridal+path+nigel+tranter+film&pg=PA534
|isbn= 978-3-5981-1492-2
}}</ref> The film was an unsuccessful attempt to repeat the success of Launder and Gilliat's earlier ''[[Geordie (film)|Geordie]]'' (1955).<ref>{{cite web
|last= Shipman
|first= David
|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-bill-travers-1367198.html
|title= Obituary: Bill Travers
|date= 31 March 1994
|access-date= 2 October 2015
|work= The Independent
}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Bill Travers]] as Ewan McEwan
* [[George Cole (actor)|George Cole]] as Police Sergeant Bruce
* [[Bernadette O'Farrell]] as Siona Campbell
* [[Duncan Macrae (actor)|Duncan Macrae]] as Headquarters Police Sergeant
* [[Alex Mackenzie]] as Finlay
* [[Patricia Bredin]] as Margaret
* Fiona Clyne as Katie
* [[Dilys Laye]] as Isobel
* [[Eddie Byrne]] as Mike Flanagan
* [[Terry Scott]] as Police Constable Donald
* [[Gordon Jackson (actor)|Gordon Jackson]] as Police Constable Alec
* [[Roddy McMillan]] as Murdo
* [[Joan Benham]] as Barmaid
* Pekoe Ainley as Craigie
* Joan Fitzpatrick as Sarah
* [[Nell Ballantyne]] as Jessie
* [[Jameson Clark]] as Police Constable at Crossroads
* [[Jack Lambert (British actor)|Jack Lambert]] as Hector
* [[Annette Crosbie]] as 1st Waitress
* [[Molly Weir]] as 2nd waitress
* [[Graham Crowden]] as Man Giving Directions to the Beach (uncredited)

==Plot==
Ewan McEwan, an easy-going [[sheep]] and corn farmer on Beigg, a (fictional) Scottish island, is unable to marry his childhood sweetheart Katie as his hell-raising preacher uncle is opposed to [[consanguinity]] - all the islanders are related to each other. When Katie leaves for Glasgow to train as a [[nurse]], he is persuaded to find a wife on the mainland (which he has never visited).

Withdrawing 400 pounds from the £800 he has saved in a bank in [[Oban]], he sets out to meet the local girls. He has been advised by the islanders of what they think he should look for in a potential wife: strong legs, wide hips, knowledge of cows and sheep, and also not a "candle burning Catholic" or a [[Clan Campbell|Campbell]]!

His innocent close inspection of the girls he meets raises their suspicions. The first girl, inspired by a lurid paperback novel she is reading thinks he's a [[white slavery|white slaver]] and so informs the local police. He then becomes a wanted fugitive after he 'borrows' a policeman's bicycle. Then he is mistaken for the leader of a gang of [[salmon]] poachers who use dynamite. The police eventually arrest the innocent Ewan on a wide variety of charges, but don't believe his story. Held overnight at the local police sergeant's home (there is no [[jail]]), he easily escapes custody and resumes his flight, still examining all the girls he meets.

After two sisters that he takes refuge with come to blows over him, he takes their boat (leaving the money agreed upon) and hitches a passage with a fishing boat. The boat is taken over by fishermen from a nearby island who think they are encroaching on their fishing grounds, and Ewan is locked in a shed. He is rescued by a local girl and they row back to Ewan's home island.

By now he's had enough of searching, and is starving, since he hasn't managed to have a square meal whilst on the run. He and Katie decide to marry anyway, despite the ban on consanguinity.

==Critical reception==
''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "''Bridal Path'' does not take any unexpected turns but a viewer can have a nice time and some giggles along the way."{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{IMDb title|0052649|The Bridal Path}}

{{Launder and Gilliat}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bridal Path, The}}
[[Category:1959 films]]
[[Category:1959 romantic comedy films]]
[[Category:British romantic comedy films]]
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]
[[Category:English-language Scottish films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Sidney Gilliat]]
[[Category:Films directed by Frank Launder]]
[[Category:Scottish films]]
[[Category:Films set in Scotland]]
[[Category:1950s British films]]

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