Standby Props
Chris McMillan and Tristan Carlisle-Kitz,
Props Driver
Andy Neilson,
Dressing Props
Bobb Orr and John Casey,
Prop Master
Bill Gower,
Standby Carpenter
Ian Gallacher,
Standby Painter
John Hughes,
Standby Rigger
John Rhymer,
Construction Painter
Henry Gallacher,
Construction Manager
Malcolm Gilbert,
Electricians
Joe McLean, Ben Horsefield,
Genny Operator
Phil Green,
Best Boy
Eddie Monaghan,
Lighting Gaffer
Bob Horsefield,
Floor Runner
Emmet Cahill,
Third Assistant Director
Mark Murdoch,
Second Assistant Director
Dee
Hellier,
Script Supervisor
Sheila Johnston,
Production Runner
Mark McGhee,
Production Secretary
Claire Gammon,
Production Co-ordinator
Joanne O’Sullivan,
Assistant Accountant
Lorraine Berrie,
Production Accountant
Wim De Greff,
Location Runner
Robert Cowie,
Unit Manager
Miglet Crichton,
Location Manager
Brian Kaczynski,
Assistant Film Editor
Laura Gorman,
Dubbing Mixer
Chris Sinclair,
Sound Editor
Douglas MacDougall,
Graphic Design
Douglas Bryce,
Post Production Supervisor
Liz Pearson,
Stunts
David Andres and Vincent Keane,
Stunt Co-ordinator
Roderick P Woodruff,
Special Effects Designer
Paul Kelly for Any Effects,
Special Effects Supervisor
Tom Harris,
Wardrobe Assistant
Nicholas Roache-Gordon,
Costume Supervisor
Suzy Freeman,
Boom Operator
Bradley Kendrick,
Sound Recordist
Brian Milliken,
2nd Camera Assistant
Joe Blackwell,
2nd Camera Operator
Dave Carey,
Grip
Terry Pate,
Clapper Loader
Stephen Warner,
Focus Puller
Steve Oxley,
First Assistant Director
Nael Abbas,
Casting Director
Di Carling CDG,
Screenplay
Stuart Hepburn,
Script Editor
Nicole Cauverien,
Costume Designer
Delphine Roche-Gordon,
Make-Up Designer
Amanda Warburton and Alison Davies,
Music
Douglas Ferguson,
Editor
Chris
Buckland,
Director of Photography
Doug Hallows,
Production Designer
Campbell Gordon,
Line Producer
Gary Tuck,
Director
Martyn Friend,
Producer
Murray Ferguson,
Executive Producer
Philip Hinchcliffe and John Hannah.
The film has a violent but very atmospheric opening that sensitively bastardises the important points at the start of the novel.
The voice-over from Hannah is good
and helps gel a highly charged story.‘Big Ger’ is OK, Tommy Telford, more so. A lot of Rebus’s complex love life is left unsaid to keep the story visual and at pace. From the mid-point of the film the pace is somewhat increased and more detail is left out, including a character full of Eastern promise…
Overall
The Hanging Garden
is a very watchable TV drama, even if Templer’s character is taken
far from the original books, but then again some liberties were taken with some of the nicely tied loose ends at the end of the original novel.
Note: the book title refers to The Cure’s song ‘The Hanging Garden’.
DI John Rebus
John Hannah,
DI Morton
Ewan Stewart,
DCI Templer
Sara Stewart,
DI Ormond
Lewis Howden,
D Supt McCaskill
Stuart Hepburn,
DS Clarke
Gayanne Potter,
Dr Emir Slaven
Tom
Watson,
Candice/Katarina
Sheyla Shehovich,
Morris Cafferty
James Cosmo,
Sammy Rebus
Eilidh MacDonald,
DI Miriam Kenworthy
Philippa Watson,
Jake Tarawicz
Deka Walmsley,
Tommy Telford
Tommy Flanagan,
‘Pretty Boy’Summers
Scott Cleverdon,
Rhona
Corinne Harris,
WPC Logan
Jenny Ryan,
Executive
Jaclyn Tse,
Weasel
Andrew Barr,
Kenny Houston
Douglas Russell,
Sean Haddow
James G O’Hara,
Telford Man
Martyn
Tim Webster,
Danny Simpson
Steve Caswell,
DS Bill Pryde
Robert Paterson,
Doctor
Jacques Kerr,
Nurse
Trish Mullin,
Boy Eyewitness
Sean Mowat,
Acid Throwing Man
Chris Young,
Marty
Rab Affleck,
Taxi Driver
Gordon Munro,
Singer
Owen Gorman,
A&E Doctor
Patrick Logan,
Boy
Scott Weir.
Standby Props
Chris McMillan and Dennis Knotts,
Props Driver
Andy Neilson,
Dressing Props
Bob Orr and John Brown,
Prop Master
Bill Gower,
Standby Carpenter
Ian Gallacher,
Standby Painter
John Hughes,
Standby Rigger
Peter Callaghan,
Construction Painter
Henry Gallagher,
Construction Manager
Malcolm Gilbert,
Art Department Runner
Sarah Cowlishaw,
Production Buyer
Douglas Harvey,
Art Directors
Nicki McCallum and Catherine Carruthers,
Electricians
Joe McLean and Mike Archer,
Genny Operator
Phil Green,
Best Boy
Eddie Monaghan,
Lighting Gaffer
Bob Horsefield,
Floor Runner
Emmet Cahill,
Third Assistant Director
Mark Murdoch,
Second Assistant Director
Dee Hellier,
Script Supervisor
Sheila Johnston,
Production Runner
Mark McGhee,
Production Secretary
Claire Gammon,
Production Co-ordinator
Joanne O’Sullivan,
Assistant Accountant
Lorraine Berrie,
Production Accountant
Wim De Greef,
Location Runner
Robert Cowie,
Unit Manager
Miglet Crichton,
Location Manager
Brian Kaczynski,
Assistant Film Editor
Laura Gorman,
Dubbing Mixer
Chris Sinclair,
Sound Editor
Douglas MacDoughall,
Post Production Supervisor
Liz Pearson,
Stunts
David Anders, Theo Kypri, Lex Milloy, Andy J Smart, Trevor Steedman, Tony van Silva and Len Woodcock,
Stunt Co-ordinator
Roderick P Woodruff,
Special Effects Designer
Paul Kelly for Any
Effects,
Special Effects Supervisor
Tom Harris,
Armourer
Gregg Pearson,
Armourers
Perdix Firearms,
Wardrobe Assistant
Nicholas Roche-Gordon,
Costume Supervisor
Suzy Freedman,
Boom Operator
Bradley Kendrick,
Sound Recordist
Brian Milliken,
2nd Camera Assistant
Joe Blackwell,
Steadicam/2nd Camera Operator
Dave Carey,
Clapper Operator
Stephen Warner,
Focus Puller
Steve Oxley,
Grip
Terry Pate,
First
Assistant Director
Nael Abbas,
Casting Director
Di Carling CDG,
Screenplay
Ben Brown and Philip Palmer,
Script Editor
Nicole Cauverien,
Costume Designer
Delphine Roche-Gordon,
Make-up Designer
Alison Davies and Amanda Warburton,
Music
David Ferguson,
Editor
Chris Buckland,
Director of Photography
Doug Hallows,
Production Designer
Campbell Gordon,
Director
Maurice Phillips,
Line Producer
Gary Tuck,
Producer
Murray Ferguson,
Executive Producers
Philip Hinchcliffe and John Hannah
.
Rebus’s troubled sleep – dark and gothic – opens the story. But soon Rebus springs into action and starts to narrate the story.
He arrests a known paedophile, Darren Rough, as he takes photographs at the zoo. Rebus thinks he is taking photos of children but in fact he is taking photos of the animals.
Rebus and DI Jim Margolies take Darren home, arousing the local community as to his past at the same time – so much so that Darren eventually needs police protection.
Old school friend Barny Mee turns up at St Leonard’s to ask Rebus for help in locating his missing son. Rebus is reluctant to help until he finds that Barny is actually married to Rebus’s ex-girlfriend, who he falls in love with
all over again.
Jim Margolies, Rebus’s friend, the man who has everything, commits suicide and Rebus suspects foul play even though Jim’s father wants everything left alone.
Gill Templer admits to organising the safe house for Darren Rough, because she needed him as a witness in one of her cases. She had warned off Margolies, who was responsible for putting the paedophile away in the first place,
but Rebus knew nothing of it.
After interviewing two child prostitutes and Darren himself, Rebus finds that Margolies was hiding a sinister secret, something his wife even knew about and his father had orchestrated.
Rebus helps his ex-girlfriend in finding her son. He is living with his gay lover. Barny Mee won’t thank Rebus though, as Janice admits to spending the night with Rebus. It seems
that Rebus has broken up the marriage.
DI John Rebus
John Hannah,
DCI Gill Templer
Sara Stewart,
DCS Wilson
Ron Donachie,
DS Siobhan Clarke
Gayanne Potter,
Janice Mee
Michelle Fairley,
Barry Mee
Paul Cunningham,
Darren Rough
Russell Barr,
DI Jim Margolies
Mark Bonnar,
Katherine Margolies
Emma Currie,
Dr Joe Margolies
Hugh Ross,
Betty Margolies
Anna Hepburn,
Mary Margolies
Danielle Cook,
Stuart Mee
Iain Robertson,
Cameron Petrie
Stuart Wilkinson,
Ama Petrie
Carol Preston,
Weasel
Andrew Barr,
Van Brady
Myra McFadyen,
Ray Heggie
Paul Malcolm,
Billy Boy Brady
Ryan McIntyre,
Gordon Ince
Peter Kelly,
Kenny Lynch
Malcolm Shields,
Mrs Playfair
Pamela Kelly,
Fern
Dorothy Jane Stewart,
Francine
Stephanie Wilson,
Leanne
Kayleigh Johnstone,
Joey
Thomas Mullins,
Pete
James Mackenzie,
Bouncer
Dirk Robertson,
PC
David Tarkenter,
Man Walking Dog
Colin Brown.
Standby Props
John Booth, Bob Orr,
Props Driver
Andy Neilson,
Dressing Props
John Casey, Piero Jamieson,
Prop Master
Bill Gower,
Standby Carpenter
Ian Gallacher,
Standby Painter
John Hughes,
Standby Rigger
Billy Wilson,
Construction Painter
Henry Gallacher,
Construction Manager
Malcolm Gilbert,
Art Department Runner
Sarah Cowlishaw,
Production Buyer
Craig Menzies,
Art Directors
Nicki McCallom, Catherine Carruthers,
Electricians
Mick Lay, Rob Osborne,
Genny Operator
Mike Cooper,
Best Boy
Dave Cook,
Lighting Gaffer
Steve Philips,
Third Assistant Director
Emmet Cahill,
Second Assistant Director
Dee Hellier,
Script Supervisor
Sheila Johnston,
Production Secretary
Anne O’Neill,
Production Co-ordinator
Joanne O’Sullivan,
Assistant
Accountant
Catrina Luna,
Production Accountant
Wim de Greef,
Location Runner
Fraser Tolmie,
Unit Manager
Miglet Crichton,
Assistant Film Editor
Laura Gorman,
Dubbing Mixer
Cy Jack,
Sound Design
Savalas,
Post Production Supervisor
Liz Pearson,
Stunts
Tony Van Silva, Peter Pocock, Vincent Kerane, Gordon Seed,
Stunt Co-ordinator
Roderick P. Woodruff,
Special Effects Supervisor
Peter Akass,
Armourer
Gregg Pearson,
Assistant Costume Designers
Rob Wooley, Christof Roche-Gordon,
Assistant Make-up Designer
Fiona Maynard,
Boom Operator
Bradley Kendrick,
Sound Recordist
Brian Milliken,
2nd Focus Puller
Kevin O’Brien,
2nd Camera Operator
Jim Peters,
Steadicam Operator
Alastair Rae,
Clapper Loader
Stephen Warner,
Focus Puller
Jason Olive,
Grip
Terry Pate,
Camera Operator
Andrew McDonnell,
Location
Manager
Brian Kaczynski,
First Assistant Director
Nael Abbas,
Casting Director
Di Carling CDG,
Script Editor
Nicole Cauverien,
Costume Designer
Delphine Roche-Gordon,
Make-up Designer
Alison Davies,
Music
David Ferguson,
Editor
Chris Buckland,
Director of Photography
Eric Gillespie,
Production Designer
Campbell Gordon,
Line Production
Don Bell,
Executive Producer
Judy Couniham, John Hannah,
Screenplay
Stuart Hepburn,
Producer
Murray Ferguson,
Director
Maurice Phillips.
A very good narration begins the episode concerning the two sides of Edinburgh. Then an IRA six-pack-style murder is committed under the streets of the city and Rebus is called in.
The story follows on from the last one as Janice Mee now has her own flat and starts to rebuild her life. Throughout the episode there
are tensions between Janice and Rebus but they find some common ground towards the end.
Rebus finds that the murdered man is Brian Cunningham, ‘Big Ger’ Cafferty’s son. Here the story harks back to the previous episode
The Hanging Garden
, where ‘Big Ger’ helped to find the person who knocked down and nearly killed Rebus’s daughter. Now Cafferty, still in prison, wants Rebus to return the favour.
Rebus has regrets.
A hoard of guns is found and racial tension builds. Rebus finds a group called The White Thistle who wish to exterminate any non-white Scots.