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Whisky Galore! is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Alexander Mackendrick released in USA on 25 december 1949 with Basil Radford
Whisky Galore! (1949)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 25 december 1949
Length 1h22
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
OriginUnited-kingdom
Rating70%
Whisky Galore! (released in the US as Tight Little Island) is a 1949 Ealing comedy film from the novel Whisky Galore by Compton MacKenzie. Both the film and the novel are based on the real-life 1941 shipwreck of the S.S. Politician near the island of Eriskay and the unauthorised taking of its cargo of whisky. The plot deals with the attempts of Scottish islanders to take advantage of an unexpected windfall, despite opposition from British authorities. It starred Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. This was the first film directed by Alexander Mackendrick.
Mackenzie also wrote a sequel, Rockets Galore!, which was filmed by the Rank Organisation in 1957. An attempt was made to produce a remake of the film between 2004 and 2006. In August 2015, filming of the remake was taking place on Ardeer beach with Eddie Izzard in the role of Captain Waggett.
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The inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday in the Outer Hebrides are largely unaffected by wartime rationing, until the supply of whisky runs out in 1943. Then gloom descends on the disconsolate natives.Actors
Basil Radford
(Captain Paul Waggett)
Catherine Lacey
(Mrs. Waggett)
Bruce Seton
(Sergeant Odd)
Joan Greenwood
(Peggy Macroon)
Gordon Jackson
(George Campbell)
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