Super 8
Stereophonic sound

Running time 25 minutes

Ammon Wrigley -
a writer of
Saddleworth

A writer of Saddleworth, Ammon Wrigley, wrote and spoke of his life and times early in the 20th. century in this West Yorkshire mooredge community in books and poems.
The film takes its title from one of Ammon's poems;
Thou Eagle-winged spirit, the Wild and the Free,
How oft' did I think what a life it would be
To leap the green hedges as likely as thee.
Unfettered by care......

Strictly speaking this is not entirely my film. It was made as a joint production with a friend of mine, the late David Currie.

We dedicated the film to a friend of both of us, Ron Cassidy, who was so much like Ammon in character it was almost incredible.

The film follows Ammon's life from his tales of being a young lad to his older years wandering the moorlands and hamlets to old country inns like the 'Ram's Head’ at Denshaw and the now disappeared 'Isle of Skye Inn' on lonely Wessenden Moor.
The film is a wonderfully atmospheric piece of film making, although I say so myself as shouldn't!

David Currie plays the part of Ammon in the film, but his voice is spoken by a dialect reader, Stanley Chadwick.

Awards -
The Ten Best 1993 --
2 Stars

Bury Cine Society
Lovell Trophy 1991 --
2nd. Place

The Church Inn and Parish Church at Saddleworth, a mile above Uppermill village.

David Currie, who plays the part of Ammon in the film

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The Wild and the Free