Brigadoon Page #7

Synopsis: Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland, discover a quaint and beautiful village, Brigadoon. Strangely, the village is not on any map, and soon Tommy and Jeff find out why: Brigadoon is an enchanted place. It appears once every hundred years for one day, then disappears back into the mists of time, to wake up to its next day a century hence. When Tommy falls in love with Fiona, a girl of the village, he realizes that she can never be part of his life back in America. Can he be part of hers in Brigadoon?
Director(s): Vincente Minnelli
Production: MGM
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
PASSED
Year:
1954
108 min
1,660 Views


"- Thank you, Peter.

- Tommy, Tommy."

What's your opinion

about the Parker deal?

- I'll let you know tomorrow.

- I've got a real slant on it...

I'll tell you tomorrow.

I'll give you a call.

"Albright, how about that meeting

this morning? Was that great?"

- Great.

- Things were brought out in the open.

- Let in a lot of fresh air.

- Great.

- Do you like how I handled the old man?

- Great.

"Thanks, Albright."

- Hi.

- Hi.

- It's hot in here.

- It's not the heat. It's the humanity.

"- Good evening, Mr. Albright.

- Oh, thank you, Frank."

- Have you seen Jane?

- She meeting you here?

- Yeah.

- I'll drink up and get outta here.

There's nothing a woman hates more

than her fianc's best friend.

He knows the secrets she's gonna spend

the rest of her life tryin' to find out.

- I've been dodging her for a month now.

- Don't worry about it.

"I always say, scratch the surface

of any woman and she'll enjoy it."

- When are you getting married?

- I don't know.

- I don't know if I want to get married.

- Why?

"Because, old tank,

I'm in love with someone else..."

"and I"canna"get over it."

"And the trouble is, because I can't

be with her, I can't be with anyone."

So many things

remind me of her.

"I'll be talking with people,

and they might say one little word..."

"that opens the door

to a memory for me, and then..."

"I'm a few thousand miles away with...

well, you know."

"But slowly I come back to the

conversation, they ask me a question..."

and I don't know what in the world

they've been talking about.

- I haven't heard a word.

- You must be fascinating company.

It ain't easy.

"- Hello, Jane!

- Hello, Jane!"

"- You've certainly been elusive.

- Hello, Jeff."

I've been up to my neck at the office.

Would you like a drink?

"Love one. An old-fashioned, please,

and would you bring it to the table?"

"- How are you, Jeff?

- Darling, it's been weeks."

"- Fine, Jane. How are you?

- I'm sorry."

"Oh, I've had a little cold,

but other than that..."

- But you could've called more often.

- I hate to eat and run.

"- Your table is ready, Mr. Albright.

- Thank you."

- I'll call you later.

- Hello!

"Good-bye!

Frank, put it on the bill."

"- Your bill, sir, is very high.

- So am I!"

"- Jane, you look fine.

- So do you."

"- Would you care to order dinner now?

- No, we'll finish our drinks first."

"Darling, I wish you'd been

with me over the weekend."

"I went up to Connecticut, house hunting.

Saw the most wonderful place."

"Rather interesting. Colonial,

and right on top of a beautiful hill."

Through the heather

On the hill

The mornin' dew

Is blinkin' yonder

There's lazy music

On the rill

And all I want to do is wander

Through the heather...

"And I didn't think you'd

want to do that, would you?"

"Hmm? Uh, maybe."

"You mean, you'd even consider it?"

What?

Commuting from

60 miles out of New York.

"- No, I wouldn't wanna do that.

- I didn't think so."

And I told Mr. Bradville.

- Who?

- Herbert Bradville.

"- Who's he?

- Darling, he's the real estate man..."

I just told you

I've been working with.

"I told him you'd call, so please do.

I'm trying hard to arrange everything."

"By the way, do you still want

Jeff to stand up for you?"

"Yes, if he can."

Why?

Nothing. It's just

he's so impossible these days.

Everybody's bored to death with him.

"Maybe I'm not interested

in everybody, Jane."

"Well, you certainly have been antisocial

since you got back from Scotland."

I thought for a while there was

something really bothering you.

You certainly wouldn't

keep me waiting and...

Waitin' for my dearie

And happy am I

To hold my heart

'Til he comes strollin' by

"- Give me a ring, won't you?

- Oh, of course."

"When he comes, my dearie"

One look and I'll know

That he's the dearie

I've been wantin' so

"- When I see you wander around like...

- No, Jane. No."

- No what?

- There won't be a wedding next month.

"- Do you mean you're postponing it again?

- No, Jane, I'm not postponing it."

- I'm calling it off for good.

- Calling it off?

"Jane, I'm sorry.

You've been wonderful, darling."

"It's not your fault, but something

strange happened to me a few months ago."

"I can't explain it,

but I just don't fit here anymore."

You've gone clean out of your mind.

We can't stand here and talk about it.

Let's go home and...

"Go home, go home

Go home with bonnie Jean"

"Go home, go home"

"If you want to stay and make

a fool of yourself, you can."

I'll go home with bonnie Jean

"Go home, go home

Go home with bonnie Jean"

Until I'm old enough

for Social Security...

I've got my expense account.

"But most important of all,

I'm building."

Building every day. That's about

the only security a man can have.

"Hello. Room 732, please."

"Jeff, are you sober?

Listen to me."

I wanna go back to Scotland.

You wanna come along?

Never mind what for!

Do you wanna come with me?

"Okay, get plane reservations

right away."

"I know it isn't there,

but I wanna see where it was!"

"Who cares if it doesn't make sense?

Jeff, I wanna go!"

I've got to!

It's unbelievable.

- Awful and unbelievable.

- What is?

"To think that down there, somewhere

between the mist and the stars..."

"there's someone I want so terribly,

and I know she's not dead."

"She's only asleep,

and yet I'll never see her again."

"Well, you didn't have to come

all the way over here just to say that."

You could've told me on the phone

back in New York for a dime.

"No, I'll tell you why."

She became so alive to me that

I had to come back and see for myself...

if the place really wasn't here.

It didn't work that way for me.

It's so much like a dream now

that I have to work hard...

to convince myself

it happened at all.

"There's the big difference

between us, Jeff."

"Oh, tell me about it."

I found that...

sometimes the things you believe in

become more real to you...

than all the things

you can explain away or understand.

"Oh, why do people

have to lose things..."

to find out

what they really mean?

"Well, let's start walkin'."

I got lost around here once.

Brigadoon

Brigadoon

Blooming under

Sable skies

Brigadoon

Brigadoon

There my heart forever

Lies

Let the world grow cold

Around us

Let the heavens

Cry above

Tommy!

"Tommy, lad, you!"

"My, my, you must really love her.

You woke me up."

"Come, lad."

You shouldn't be too surprised.

"I told ya, if ya loved

someone deeply enough..."

anything is possible.

Even miracles.

Brigadoon

Brigadoon

In my valley

There'll be

Love

There'll be love

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Alan Jay Lerner

Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre both for the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors. more…

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