Release Date

16 Jun, 1949

Runtime

01:22: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Whisky Galore!

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Actors

Basil Radford

Bruce Seton

Gordon Jackson

Wylie Watson

Morland Graham

John Gregson

Joan Greenwood

Gabrielle Blunt

Catherine Lacey

Jean Cadell

James Robertson Justice

James Woodburn

Jameson Clark

Duncan Macrae

Mary MacNeil

Norman MacOwan

Alastair Hunter

Henry Mollison

Frank Webster

Compton MacKenzie

James Anderson

Crew

Alexander Mackendrick

Angus MacPhail

Michael Balcon

Ernest Irving

Compton MacKenzie

Compton MacKenzie

Monja Danischewsky

Gerald Gibbs

Jim Morahan

Hal Mason

Chic Waterson

Joseph Sterling

L. C. Rudkin

Leonard Bulkley