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Bookmark this pageWhisky Galore! (1949)
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
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From Time Out Film Guide
Classic Ealing comedy about the no-holds-barred battle waged by a Hebridean island community, parched by wartime shortages, determined to put a shipwrecked cargo of whisky to proper use before officialdom can lay claim to it. Reminiscent of Passport to Pimlico in its amiable puncturing of bureaucracy, but a good deal sharper as a parable of colonialism, with the Scots contriving a humiliating double-edged comeuppance for their English laird and master (Radford). Delightful characterisations, lovely locations on the island of Barra.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Producer: Michael Balcon
Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson Justice, Wylie Watson, John Gregson, Duncan Macrae, Catherine Lacey full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 82 mins
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