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