The least-seen of Mackendrick’s Ealing pictures, The Maggie tells an unusual story of a culture clash between the Old and New Worlds. Its title is the name of a decrepit Scottish vessel whose wily captain blackmails an American tycoon into using his ramshackle boat to move valuable furniture to an island mansion. Mackendrick's precursor to Local Hero applies an almost anthropological interest in the vestiges of village culture in the postwar world to establish an irresolvable dichotomy between Yankee pragmatism and materialism and the penurious charm and superstitions of the islanders张红兵拍了方雨璇头一下道：“刺激你个头啊，出了事情怎么办，那个那个娘娘腔，你也别扔了，你看没看自己把手雷扔到哪里了，你炸人家路边的小吃店干什么，让你炸丧尸！还有那个周大小姐，你也算了吧，我真怕你把拉了弦的手雷掉在车里。”