Editing Polruan (section)

==Film and television==
The film ''[[Stolen Hours]]'' featuring [[Susan Hayward]] was filmed around Polruan. The latter part of the film follows an actress who comes to Polruan to live out the remainder of her life, following a brain tumour, with her surgeon husband. The 1963 film displays older shots of the village including use of the village shop, "Headland House", and the clip of the children's sports day which is filmed where Greenbank is now built. A local, Mrs Baker, was included in the filming of the egg and spoon race and calls... "Let's get shoes off!"{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

An episode of ''[[The Inspector Lynley Mysteries]]'' was also partly filmed in Polruan.