In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visits the Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him are his friend, the Scotsman James Boswell, and his black servant Francis Barber. Staying with a series of hosts, including elderly Jacobite heroine Flora McDonald, Johnson and Boswell encounter traditional Scottish hospitality at first-hand, all the time arguing about politics (and in Boswell's case losing his head over every pretty woman he meets). M ...[Read Story ]
This movie was originally to have been a two-reel Western, but was converted into a serial. Episodes 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13 and 14 survive in the Library of Congress Moving Image Collection.