Pennan Scotland

The weather-beaten village of Pennan, miles from anywhere and little more than a row of whitewashed stone cottages, boasts one outstanding tourist attraction: a red telephone booth. Not just any old call box, this is the public telephone that outshone Burt Lancaster in the 1983 film "Local Hero," and it is the reason thousands of fans from the world over have made the pilgrimage to Pennan, where the movie was filmed, over the last 17 years.

The weather-beaten village of Pennan, miles from anywhere and little more than a row of whitewashed stone cottages, boasts one outstanding tourist attraction: a red telephone booth. Not just any old call box, this is the public telephone that outshone Burt Lancaster in the 1983 film "Local Hero," and it is the reason thousands of fans from the world over have made the pilgrimage to Pennan, where the movie was filmed, over the last 17 years.