Willie Rough is a play by Scottish writer and director Bill Bryden, which is often regarded as a landmark of Scottish drama.

Originally a stage play produced by the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company in Edinburgh in 1972, a TV version was shown in 1976 as Play for Today, with a cast including Fulton Mackay and Roddy McMillan.

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It is set in a Greenock shipyard around the outbreak of the First World War, and put forward a revolutionary socialist view of events of the time. John Maclean, a Socialist leader who opposed the war, is mentioned several times but never appears in person.

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1976 television plays

Play for Today

Anti-war films

Films about the labor movement

Films set in Scotland

Red Clydeside

Willie Rough