Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Catherine Lacey

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Out...( read more  read more... )er Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 22 min.

Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick

Release Date: June 1, 1949

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  • August 17, 2009
    Would you go for the whisky or not? Odds are you would but just to have that much whisky at your finger tips would be so good!
  • July 14, 2008
    nominated for best foreign film by NBR
  • April 5, 2008
    A few LULZ here and there, overall quite and interesting a warm film.
  • December 27, 2007
    The granddaddy of movies like "Waking Ned Devine" and "Saving Grace". A group of islanders, after a severe whiskey shortage, hit the mother lode when a ship full of whiskey runs aground off the coast. And the rest of the movie is them keeping the good stuff away from the Home G...( read more)uard captain, intent on confiscating the looted goods. It's fun and funny and holds up really well fifty years later. The characters are fun, especially the older folks as they gleefully imbibe. I was chuckling throughout. This one's ripe for a remake, and they wouldn't have to change much to keep it as funny as it is.
  • September 27, 2007
    Doesn't look all that entertaining. A bunch of people getting shipwrecked on an island and all they have is Whiskey can't be fun.

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  • pearlsencha
    April 12, 2007
    Read more about this old classic!
    IMDB> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042040/
    >http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/441458/index.html
    >http://www.whiskygalorefilm.com/

    Film location >http://www.filmhebrides.com/islands/barra/

    DVD and book:
    >http://www.amazon.co.uk/ search on Whisky galore>(2 disc or single disc available)
    >http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whisky-Vintage-Classics-Compton-Mackenzie/

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