- escape to the wilds and a long-running TV soap

With Loch Lomond perhaps the most famous scenic location in Scotland, no surprise it appears in The Last Great Wilderness (2002), directed by David MacKenzie (who also directed Young Adam - see below). This comedy-drama about escapism features Alastair MacKenzie (noted for his appearances as Archie in Monarch of the Glen) and Jonathan Phillips. Notable backdrops to the action include the hills north-east of the famous Ben Lomond, while Loch Lomond is also the setting to a scene in which the two turn up at a deserted garage. This was filmed at Tarbet, halfway up the loch.

Loch Lomond was also a backdrop for the 1996 TV series Bad Boys (the one that started as a beer advertisement). It also featured in The Beautiful Game (1999) aka The Match - a film about the rivalry between two pubs in the same village. Scenes from Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat (2001), another success for Indian cinema, also used the loch.

The television series Take the High Road (from 1980) was very much associated with Luss, the attractive village on Loch Lomond's west bank. Luss also turns up in Heartless (2005), with Angus Deayton.

Also close to the loch, Dumbarton Castle is in Gregory's Two Girls (1999). Dumbarton, along with Renton and Bowling, was also used in the 1999 TV series Donovan Quick, with Colin Firth, as well as in the Ewan McGregor film Young Adam (2003).

The TV series River City (2002) uses Dumbarton, while Overtoun House, above the town, became Craiglockart Hospital (really in Edinburgh) for the film Regeneration (1997). This was released in the US as Behind the Lines and tells the story of the meeting of two of the famous war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen in a sanatorium. Overtoun was also used in the 1998 TV series A Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star, and also in Murder Rooms (2000) about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his famous creation, Sherlock Holmes.

Finally, A Night to Remember (1958) was the very factual film treatment of the Titanic disaster. Familiar faces in the film included Kenneth More and Honor Blackman and some of the scenes were filmed in a shipbreaker's yard by Helensburgh.