Whistling in the Dark

Samuel was 15 year old boy living in the affluent Stockbroker’s Belt of London with his rich parents Eugene and Annabelle Pritchard.Eugene was a very successful merchant banker who had to work exclusively from his study due to a serious heart condition… Annabella was 20 years younger than Eugene… Samuel adored his father but hated his mother who was in his eye a ‘whore’ on account of her indefinitely. Eugene’s love for Anabella was so strong that he would accept any lies which she told him.Heartache comes to the Pritchard household with the sudden death of Eugene due to a heart attack. Annabella tragically dies two weeks later due to an unexplained household accident… Samuel suffers a serious mental breakdown and is sent to an institution for a mentally ill.After 10 years in the institution Samuel resumes life with an inheritance worth millions… As he settles into his recently purchased country mansion. Samuel employs a butler named Thomas. Samuel and Thomas are both like-minded people and a bond is quickly established between them.This new life will test Samuel and all around him.

George McDougall graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 2014 with a degree in screenwriting. To date, he has written numerous screenplays, both short and feature length.

He has had two of his short screenplays: ‘PRECIOUS MINUTE’ and ‘THE FINGER’ made into short films. He was invited by a representative of the Nigerian Film Industry to write a feature screenplay about a clash of differences between a Scottish family and a Nigerian family who have recently moved from Lagos Nigeria and are now living next door to the Glasgow family.

The title of this film is, ‘SCOTTISH BLOODLINE’ we started filming in Glasgow in April 2020 but due to COVID-19 we had to abandon filming. Hopefully, we can commence filming sometime this year.