Whisky Galore!

1949 PG-13 1h 22m

6.8 / 10 152

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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 Outer 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.

Director Alexander Mackendrick

Writers

Angus MacPhail Compton MacKenzie Compton MacKenzie

Stars

Basil Radford Bruce Seton Gordon Jackson

Comedy Crime

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Geronimo1967 27 Mar 2022

8/10

Based on a real incident some 8 years earlier, this film tells the story of a whisky-starved Scottish island that gets the windfall to end all windfalls - a ship carrying an enormous cargo of Scotch runs aground. The islanders are determined to salvage whatever they can, despite the best efforts of the local Home Guard Captain (an Englishman - Basil Radford) and the Excise men. This is a gentle li...