Book here to watch this screening online! Please note: this is not a live-stream. Booking will close at midnight on Saturday 22 March. Online viewing will then be available ‘on demand’ for 48-hours only from 12 noon (UTC+0) Sunday 23 March - Tuesday 25 March 2025. 

The sea-swept Hebridean island may be fictitious, and the stunning Scottish location-shooting may actually be in Massachusetts, but this charming tale of West Coast fisher-folk will beguile you with its proud tartan heart.

This screening will feature English captions of all spoken content. There will be the option to choose audio description (AD) for blind and low vision audiences (feature film only) and all audiences will be sent optional Audio Described preparatory materials created by Polly Goodwin.

Please note - this is an online broadcast, you will receive the viewing link and all info on how to watch online once booking closes at midnight on Saturday 22 March. You can only tune in to this screening between the times stated above. Please ignore the automatic email you are sent at time of booking containing a QR code. If you have any queries please contact hippfest@falkirk.gov.uk .

Mary Pickford plays plucky Marget MacTavish – only daughter of the last Chieftain of the Clan MacTavish, a fishing community on the Scottish island of Killean. When her father dies at sea it is up to Marget to assume leadership of the Clan and to whip the islanders into shape. Her happiness seems assured at last when she is betrothed to Jamie Campbell but secrets from the past threaten their future together.

The “Woman who made Hollywood” brought her formidable talents for successful collaboration with director Maurice Tourneur and art director Ben Carré to make this enchanting ‘Scottish’ gem – available at last in a new restoration that reveals the makers’ beautiful composition, lighting and art direction.

Dir. Maurice Tourneur | USA | 1917 | N/C PG | b&w, tinted & toned | English intertitles | 1h 24m + short

With: Mary Pickford, Matt Moore, Warren Cooke, Kathryn Browne-Decker

Performing live: Stephen Horne (piano, flute, accordion), Elizabeth-Jane Baldry (harp)

Screening material and images courtesy of the Mary Pickford Foundation