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This low budget British film tells the story of Scottish poet Robert Burns whose humorous life lesson poems reads like a eighteenth century version of the Bible book of Proverbs. Veteran Scottish actor Andrew Cruickshank was a handsome Scottish lad of only 30 when he played this rold. The story deals with the respect he gains as his poetry becomes well known in his region and how that gets him the courage to marry Jean Armour (Christine Adrian), dealing with her disapproving father.

While the film itself seems corny and frequently hard to understand every word of the script, it's a sweet movie, cut into chapters divided by placards of individual poems. Burns is a good natured individual in spite of the objections of his future father-in-law, their wedding night spoiled by the ripping up of the certificate, and eventually going to Edinburgh to make something of himself. Not exactly filmed on a much needed high budget, much of it feels like a filmed stage play. Many of the poems are sung for good effect. I wasn't familiar with Burns' work, but after seeing this became interested in more, adding the 2014 movie "Red Rose" to my list of films to see.