[box cover]  Local Hero  Houston-based Knox Corp. has located a
new supply of oil in the North Sea, but their proposed refinery
and shipping port will have to be built where a Scottish fishing
village currently stands. Aware that the acquisition of a small
town and its many properties will require some delicacy,
Porsche-driving junior executive Mac MacIntyre (Peter Riegert)
is dispatched to Scotland, primarily because of his user-
friendly surname (and despite the fact that his forefathers were
Hungarian and only adopted the MacIntyre name because they
assumed it was "American"). Knox Chairman Felix Happer (Burt
Lancaster) personally oversees the operation, although the
eccentric CEO is more interested in the astronomical benefits
the northern location has to offer than any humdrum oil deal.
Once on the ground, Mac begins negotiations with the town's
innkeeper and chief representative, Gordon Urquhart (Denis
Lawson), but what should be predictable from that point isn't —
the townspeople decide to drive a hard