Whisky Galore!
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- Crime
- Comedy
Overview
Whisky Galore! is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios, starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. It was the directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick; the screenplay was by Compton Mackenzie, an adaptation of his 1947 novel Whisky Galore, and Angus MacPhail. The story—based on a true event, the running aground of the SS Politician—concerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky because of wartime rationing. The islanders find out the ship is carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, some of which they salvage, against the opposition of the local Customs and Excise men.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- 1940s
- shipwreck
- island
- world war ii
- black and white
- scotland
- food rationing
- home front
- whiskey
- hebrides
- hebrides, scotland
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 16, 1949
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Gaelic
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Ealing Studios,General Film Distributors
- Cast
- Basil Radford,Bruce Seton,Gordon Jackson,Wylie Watson,Morland Graham,John Gregson,Joan Greenwood,Gabrielle Blunt,Catherine Lacey,Jean Cadelland 14 more
- Director
- Alexander Mackendrick
- Producer
- Michael Balcon
- Cinematography
- Gerald Gibbs
- Music
- Ernest Irving
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0042040