The read
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 22m.
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.
Ratings
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
156 audience votes
Key crew
- Angus MacPhailScreenplay
- Ernest IrvingOriginal Music Composer
- Alexander MackendrickDirector
- Compton MacKenzieScreenplay
Cast
- Basil RadfordCaptain Paul Waggett
- Bruce SetonSergeant Odd
- Gordon JacksonGeorge Campbell
- Wylie WatsonJoseph Macroon
- Morland GrahamThe Biffer
- John GregsonSammy MacCodrun
- Joan GreenwoodPeggy Macroon
- Gabrielle BluntCatriona Macroon
- Catherine LaceyMrs. Waggett
- Jean CadellMrs. Campbell
- James Robertson JusticeDr. Maclaren
- James WoodburnRoderick MacRurie