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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
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| The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain | |
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| Directed by | Christopher Monger |
| Produced by | Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein Sarah Curtis Sally Hibbin Robert Jones Scott Maitland Paul Sarony |
| Written by | Ivor Monger |
| Starring | Hugh Grant Ian McNeice Tara Fitzgerald Colm Meaney Kenneth Griffith |
| Music by | Stephen Endelman |
| Cinematography | Vernon Layton |
| Editing by | David Martin |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
| Release date(s) |  May, 1995 (Cannes Film Festival) May 12, 1995 August 4, 1995 October 26, 1995 January 11, 1996 May 11, 1996 |
| Running time | 99 min. |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is a 1995 movie written by Ivor Monger and directed by Christopher Monger.
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The movie is based on a story heard by Christopher Monger from his grandfather about the real village of Taff's Well (Ffynnon Taf in Welsh), Cardiff, Wales and its neighbouring Garth Mountain. Due to 20th century urbanisation of the area, it was filmed in the more rural Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant in mid Wales.
The movie is set in 1917 (with World War I in the background) and revolves around two English cartographers, the pompous Garrad and his junior Anson, who arrive at the fictional Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw (Rough Fountain in Welsh) to measure its "mountain" - only to cause outrage when they conclude that it is only a hill because it is slightly short of the required 1000 feet. The villagers, aided and abetted by the wily Morgan the Goat and Reverend Jones (who after initially opposing the scheme, grasps its symbolism in restoring the community's war-damaged self-esteem), conspire with Anson to delay the cartographers' departure while they build an earth cairn on top of the hill to make it high enough to be considered a mountain.
In regard to its humorous and affectionate description of the locals, the movie has often been compared with Waking Ned Devine, a comedy film written and directed by Kirk Jones.
- Hugh Grant as Reginald Anson
- Ian McNeice as George Garrad
- Tara Fitzgerald as Betty
- Colm Meaney as Morgan the Goat
- Kenneth Griffith as Reverend Robert Jones
One of the most obscure jokes in the film occurs when a mechanic is asked about a nondescript broken part he has removed from a car, and replies "I don't know what you call it in English, but in Welsh we call it a bechingalw". Bechingalw means "whatjumacallit".
- The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain at the Internet Movie Database
- Englishman Who Went Up A Hill, Backsights Magazine (Surveyors Historical Society), originally published in Professional Surveyor, Nov./Dec. 1998
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