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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is a 1995 movie written by Ivor Monger, directed by Christopher Monger and starring Hugh Grant ("Reginald Anson"), Ian McNeice ("George Garrad"), Tara Fitzgerald ("Betty"), Colm Meaney ("Morgan the Goat") and Kenneth Griffith ("Reverend Robert Jones").

Excerpt

One of the most obscure jokes in the film occurs when a mechanic is asked about a nondescript broken part he has removed from a car, and replies "I don't know what you call it in English, but in Welsh we call it a bethyngalw". Bethyngalw in fact just means "what-do-you-call-".

Details

The movie is based on a story heard by Christopher Monger from his grandfather about the real village of Taff's Well (Ffynnon Taf in Welsh), Cardiff, Wales, UK and its neighbouring Garth Mountain. Due to 20th century urbanisation of the area, it was filmed in the more rural Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant in mid Wales.

Plot

The movie is set in 1917 (with World War I in the background) and revolves around two English cartographers, the pompous Garrad and his junior Anson, who arrive at the fictional Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw to measure its "mountain" - only to cause outrage when they conclude that it is only a hill because it is slightly short of the required 1000 feet. The villagers, aided and abetted by the wily Morgan the Goat and Reverend Jones (who after initially opposing the scheme, grasps its symbolism in restoring the community's war-damaged self-esteem), conspire with Anson to delay the cartographers' departure while they build an earth cairn on top of the hill to make it high enough to be considered a mountain.

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