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Whisky Galore!(Movie, 1950)

1h 22min | Genres: Comedy, Crime
Whisky Galore!Rating: 3.4/5 (with 5353 votes)
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. It was filmed on the island of Barra; the weather was so poor that the production over-ran its 10-week schedule by five weeks, and the film went £20,000 over budget. Michael B... ()
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About Whisky Galore!

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.

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Trailer for Whisky Galore! + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Whisky Galore! (1949) | Trailer | Basil Radford | Joan Greenwood | Catherine Lacey(Trailer, 1:03)

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Plays in: Scotland
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Gaelic (GD)
Translated into 13 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 06/16/1949
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Das Whisky-Schiff"
"Tight Little Island"

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