Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.

Will Hay
as Will Lamb

Claude Hulbert
as Hilary Tisdaile

Felix Aylmer
as Dr Winter

Raymond Huntley
as Mr Humphries

Charles Mortimer
as Sir Ambrose

Charles Hawtrey
as Percy Thorne

John Laurie
as Jamie

Manning Whiley
as Stock

Roddy Hughes
as Amberley

Derek Blomfield
as Sunshine