Two Americans, game-hunting in the Scottish Highlands, walk into a mysterious village – mysterious because it is not shown on their maps and because of its clinging girdle of fog.  In the outside world it is a May morning of 1946, but in this village of Brigadoon everything suggests the 18th century.

The visitors, Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, have a kindly but strange reception.  There is much – including talk of “the miracle” – that they cannot understand, but even in Brigadoon the ageless routine of love, courtship and marriage, with less regular amours on the side, appears to function normally.

There are great preparations for the wedding of Charlie Cameron to Jean MacKeith – clearly disturbing to Harry Ritchie, the rival suitor.  Tommy finds a fascinating friend in Fiona, sister of Jean, and tough-guy Jeff needs all his toughness to stave-off the designs of mischievous Meg Brockie.

It is during the wedding preparations that Tommy chances to read strange entries in a family Bible.  No one will explain them until he is taken to Mr Murdoch, the village schoolmaster, who then tells the story of Brigadoon . . . . . how, two hundred years ago, the minister prayed for a miracle – that the village and its people might vanish into the Highland mist and return for one day every hundred years.  Part of the miracle was that if anyone belonging to Brigadoon went away the village would disappear for ever.  Another provision was that a stranger might stay if he loved someone in the village.

The wedding is held in the presence of the clans, but the rejoicings end abruptly and fearfully when Harry, the rejected suitor, announces that he will leave Brigadoon.

Harry runs from the stupefied assembly but is chased through the forest, falls from a rock and is killed.  Brigadoon is saved from total extinction – but what of its visitors?  The practical Jeff has no desire to vanish for a hundred years, but for Tommy, no deeply in love with Fiona, the decision is anything but easy.  As the day ends, however, he decides that there must be a parting.  When the mist gathers and Brigadoon recedes from view Fiona is singing to him of her love.

The scene changes to New York City, where, in a cocktail bar, Tommy meets his American fiancée, only to realise that he cannot go through with the engagement.  Fiona and her companions appear to him in visions and weave a spell that cannot be resisted.  With Jeff for company, he makes a pilgrimage to the spot where Brigadoon had stood.

To the swell of familiar music the fantasy ends in another miracle, for, as Mr Murdoch says, “I told ye, when ye love someone deeply, anythin’ is possible.”

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