THE ENGLISHMAN WHO WENT UP A HILL BUT CAME DOWN A MOUNTAIN.
Lobby card unsigned. Color, 14x11. Promotion for the 1995 film, The
Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. A proud Welsh community finds their civic pride
and sense of community threatened by a team of surveyors in this eccentric
comedy. Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant) and George Garrard (Ian McNeice) are a pair
of British cartographers with Her Majesty's Ordnance Survey Office, who arrive
in the small Welsh town of Ffynnon Garw, where, thanks to a linguistic quirk
stemming from the British domination of Wales, many of the citizens in this town
lack proper surnames and instead are identified by occupations or personal
characteristics, such as Ivor the Grocer (Robert Blythe) or Johnny Shell-shocked
(Ian Hart). The town's greatest pride and most prominent landmark is a mountain
(named, like the town, Ffynnon Garw), which they claim is the first mountain in
Wales, and which helped protect the village from any number of Romans, Saxons,
Norsemen, and other foreign invaders over the centuries. However, Reginald and
George have some bad news for the townsfolk: under British law, a land mass must
be at least 1,000 feet tall to qualify as a mountain, and according to their
measurements, Ffynnon Garw comes in at only 930 feet, making it just a big hill.
The citizens are shocked, insulted, and angry, and after much debate and careful
measuring, Anson and Garrard conclude that they did shortchange Ffynnon Garw,
but the most generous estimate still puts it at only 984 feet. Convinced that
the town's honor and reputation is at stake thanks to these meddling Englishmen,
the good people of Ffynnon Garw hatch a plan by which they will add fifteen feet
to their "hill;" meanwhile, the easily befuddled Anson finds himself falling
under the romantic spell of a beautiful but firm-willed local woman, Betty of
Cardiff (Tara Fitzgerald). Slightly creased at corners. Fine
condition.
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