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.
Title | Whisky Galore! |
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Year | 1949 |
Genre | Comedy, Crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Studio | Ealing Studios, General Film Distributors |
Cast | Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Gordon Jackson, Wylie Watson, Morland Graham, John Gregson |
Crew | Angus MacPhail (Screenplay), Alexander Mackendrick (Director), Ernest Irving (Original Music Composer), Compton MacKenzie (Novel), Compton MacKenzie (Screenplay), Michael Balcon (Producer) |
Keyword | island, based on novel or book, scotland, shipwreck, world war ii, whiskey, home front, food rationing, 1940s, hebrides, scotland |
Release | Jun 16, 1949 |
Runtime | 82 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 6.80 / 10 by 131 users |
Popularity | 9 |
Budget | 0 |
Revenue | 0 |
Language | English, |