Join us for this special screening at DCA to celebrate our exhibition Tartan.

The screening will be preceded by a selection of short animations by Norman McLaren, and will be introduced by Jonathan Faiers, Professor of Fashion Thinking at the University of Southampton and consultant curator for Tartan.

Robert Donat, star of Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, takes a dual role as both the ghost of an 18th-century laird and his 20th-century descendant in this witty, delightfully whimsical romantic comedy. Co-starring Jean Parker and king-sized character actor Eugene Pallette, The Ghost Goes West marked French director René Clair’s British directorial debut, and was Britain's biggest box-office hit in 1936.

The film, which tells the story of an American millionaire who moves a Scottish castle brick-by-brick to Florida, only to realise it is haunted, doubles as both a celebration of pre-industrial life in the Scottish Highlands and a satire of American materialism.