Brigadoon

Brigadoon (1947) was a Broadway musical play written by Alan Jay Lerner (script and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music) which opened March 13, 1947; in 1954 a motion picture version directed by Vincente Minnelli was released. Both play and film are about two American hunters who stumble into a mysterious Scottish village that doesn't appear on any map.

Tommy Albright

Why do people have to lose things to find out what they really mean?

Jeff Douglas

Well, most of my friends who have inferiority complexes are absolutely right. They're NOT as good as everybody else!

If they want to disregard two hundred years of human bing-bang, that's their privilege.

There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiancee's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out.

You're confused, aren't you, boy? If you believed as much as you thought you believed, you wouldn't be confused.

If you scratch the surface of any woman, she'll like it!

Mr. Lundie

It's the hardest thing in the world to give everything. Though it's usually the only way to get everything.

I told you if you love someone deeply enough anything is possible. Even... miracles.

Andrew McLarren

You'll never find peace by hating, lad! It only shuts ye off more from the world! And this town is only a cursed place, if ye make it so! To the rest of us, 'tis a blessed place!"

Dialogue

Jeff Douglas: Frank, put it on the bill.

Bartender (Frank): The bill, sir, is very high.

Jeff Douglas: So am I!

Tommy Albright: [in a crowded bar] It's hot in here.

Jeff Douglas: It's not the heat, it's the humanity.

Meg Brockie: I'm highly attracted to ye. Why, when I look at ye, I feel wee tadpoles jumping in my spine.

Jeff Douglas: That's about as repulsive an idea as I've heard in years!

Jeff Douglas: Can you think of one good reason why I, a strange man, should be interested in proposing to you, a mighty strange woman, and at this hour of the day?

Meg Brockie: Because you're a lad and I'm a lass!

Jeff Douglas: Well, with that philosophy you must have had a provacative career!

Mr. Lundie: They were indeed horrible, destructive women. I dinna suppose you have such women in your country?

Tommy Albright: Witches?

Jeff Douglas: Oh, we have 'em. We pronounce it differently.

Quotes about Brigadoon

Does anyone ever get two chances? Is the Door in the Wall always gone when next you look? Where do you catch the boat for Brigadoon?
- Robert A. Heinlein, in Glory Road (1963), Ch. 22

I was grounded
while you filled the skies
I was dumbfounded by truth
you cut through lies
I saw the lone empty valley
you saw Brigadoon
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon!
- Mike Scott, in "The Whole of the Moon" on This Is the Sea (1985)

Cast

Van Johnson - Jeff Douglas

Gene Kelly - Tommy Albright

Cyd Charisse - Fiona Mamabell

Barry Jones - Mr. Lundie

Dodie Heath - Meg Brackie

External links

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