Key West - (Fox TV series --- short lived) In one episode, a piper was to be seen and heard in the background throughout the show, with absolutely no explanation. During the credits he was playing on the wall of an old fort. At the end of the credits, there was a line about "If you want to learn more about bagpipes, visit your local library". Hmm..., I would not trust the local library on this point; try the local pipe band.
Kidnapped - 1960 97 minutes. Directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Peter Finch, James MacArthur and Peter O'Toole, this is the story of an 18th century Scottish boy cheated out of his inheritance by a conniving uncle. The film contains a scene where Allan Breck Stewart and another Highlander duel with bagpipes instead of swords. The pipes are single tenor-drone types. The tunes played are simple, but well played.
Kidnapped - 1972 100 minutes. This is a second version of this famous story by R.L. Stevenson and is a combination of the original Kidnapped and the sequel called Catriona, which is lesser known but great reading. The film is directed by Delbert Mann and stars Michael Caine, Trevor Howard and Jack Hawkins, and takes the story up to the Battle of Culloden and its aftermath. I don't know what piping, if any, there is in the movie. Can someone tell me?
Kidnapped - 1995? Released on cable TV by Hallmark Entertainment (appears on the Family Channel). It stars Armand Assante and Alan Breck Stewart and Brian McCardie as David Balfour. As David, a Lowlander, asks during the movie, "If this is the HIghlands, where are the tartans and the pipes?" Breck explains how all the highland dress and the bagpipes had been banned after Culloden. There are wonderful times in the movie when the pipes drift into the background music in a haunting echo - especially when David confronts Breck about Bonnie Prince Charlie being a lost cause - but, being banned, the pipes are never seen. A very effective dramatic device, and good piping too (piobaireachd), and a movie that's the truest to the book yet made.
Kim - 1950 - This Errol Flynn movie had a Scottish Regiment in it playing some Scottish tunes (on the pipes? can anyone confirm this?).
King of Hearts - 1966 101 minutes. French with English subtitles. This was a cult classic that looks at the madness of war. It is set in France in Oct. 1918. A Scotsman is called upon to diffuse explosives left behind by the Germans. There are two scenes with pipes and one with Highland dancing but the audio does not have the real piping in it. You can also find out what a true Highlander wears under his kilt!!
King Ralph - 1991 97 minutes. Directed by David S. Ward, this film stars John Goodman, Peter O'Toole and John Hurt. It tells the story of what happens when the entire British Royal Family is wiped out, leaving an American as the heir to the throne. A pipe band plays as John Goodman descends from an airplane upon his arrival in England. The band wears full military dress.
Kojak - 1990 (TV) Episode Title: Flowers for Matty. Pipe Sergeant Al Gonzales and the NYPD Emerald Pipe Band play Amazing Grace for the funeral of an officer murdered by IRA Terrorist. Additional orchestration added later in post production studio. Scene filmed in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx. Telly Savalas delivers the eulogy.