Brigadoon (1954)

Gene Kelly: Tommy Albright

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• [In a crowded bar] 

  Tommy Albright : It's hot in here.

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

• Tommy Albright : [miserable]  Why do people have to lose things to find out what they *really* mean?

• Mr. Lundie : Two hundred years ago, the highlands of Scotland were plagued with witches, wicked sorcerers that were taking the Scottish people away from the teachings of God and putting the Devil into their souls. 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.

• Tommy Albright : Look... I'm not saying I believe all this, but just for argument's sake... suppose... suppose a stranger like... well, like... like me... came to Brigadoon and wanted to stay. Could he?

  Mr. Lundie : [gives him a long look, then smiles]  Aye, he could. Mr. Forsythe provided for that.

  Jeff Douglas : He didn't miss a trick, did he?

  Mr. Lundie : [laughing]  No, lad, he didna! No, a stranger could stay if he loved someone here... not Brigadoon itself, mind, but someone *in* Brigadoon... enough to be willing to give up everything to stay near that person... which is only right because after all, lad... if you love someone deeply enough, anything is possible.

  Fiona Campbell : Aye. Anything is possible.

• Tommy Albright : Mr. Lundie, are you all perfectly happy living here in this little town?

  Mr. Lundie : Why, of course, lad. After all, sunshine can peep through a wee hole.

• [Tommy is concerned about Jeff's drinking] 

  Tommy Albright : You told me you were going to ease up.

  Jeff Douglas : Yeah I know, but I'm a terrible *liar*.

• Tommy Albright : Let me ask you something... suppose someone in Brigadoon got fed up and wanted to leave? What then?

  Mr. Lundie : Och, he canna leave!

  Jeff Douglas : You mean *I've* got to stay here now?

• Jeff Douglas : Like a drink?

  Tommy Albright : No, thanks.

  Jeff Douglas : Good. That leaves more for me.

• Mr. Lundie : [referring to Fiona]  She's a dear lass.

  Tommy Albright : I'm just beginning to find that out.

• Tommy Albright : Fine couple of game hunters we are. We come here from New York, and the first night out, we get lost.

  Jeff Douglas : Maybe we took the high road instead of the low road.

• Tommy Albright : Where the devil are we?

• Jeff Douglas : What did you give 'em? A hunk of uranium?

  Tommy Albright : No, just a shilling. What a loony layout this is.

• Tommy Albright : [singing]  The mist of May is in the gloamin', And all the clouds are holdin' still, So take my hand and let's go roamin', Through the heather on the hill...

• Tommy Albright : [singing]  What a day this has been, What a rare mood I'm in, Why it's almost like bein' in love, There's a smile on my face, For the whole human race, Why, it's almost like bein' in love...

• Tommy Albright : Sometimes the things you believe in become more real to you than all the things you can explain away or understand.

• Tommy Albright : What's it like at night when you go to sleep?

  Mr. Lundie : Well, for me it's like being carried on shadowy arms up to a distant cloud and there I float 'til mornin'.

• Fiona Campbell : Good day.

  Tommy Albright : Good day.

  Fiona Campbell : Good day.

  Tommy Albright : Good day.

  Jeff Douglas : Good day.