Brigadoon

Brigadoon (1954) is the MGM musical fantasy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Vincente Minnelli from the Lerner and Loewe Broadway show. Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse lead a Technicolor trip into the Scottish Highlands.

Two New Yorkers, Tommy and Jeff, lose their way on a hunting trip and walk into a village that no map shows. Brigadoon surfaces from the mist for a single day once every hundred years, then sleeps again — the bargain that keeps it untouched by the outside world. Tommy falls for a local girl, Fiona, and a simple weekend abroad turns into a choice between the noise of Manhattan and a love that vanishes until the next century.

The pull here is the dancing, not the plot. Kelly's choreography and Charisse's long-limbed grace carry the film through stretches where the script goes soft and sentimental. It is unhurried, studio-era Hollywood, best suited to anyone who loves fifties stage-to-screen musicals and a gentle, fairy-tale ache. Stream Brigadoon (1954) online on iFILM.