Murray Grigor (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)
Sean Connery's Edinburgh
Opening a portrait of a city with a milk delivery at dawn is a
wellworn cinematic cliché. But what better guide could we have for Edinburgh than a young milk
rounds-man who becomes one of the great screen actors of all time? When such inside knowledge is combined with Sean Connery's famous
wry wit, surely we have the perfect guide. Moving from street to street at the pace of a horse- drawn milk cart, between the divided selves of Robbie Louis Stevenson's precipitous
city, gave the young Sean plenty of time to appreciate the elegant
buildings of Dr Jekyll''s classical New Town, and the gothic piles Mr. Hyde''s Old Town, at the dawn of his career
in movies.
