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Whisky Galore!

1949★ 6.8 · 1541h 22mComedyCrime

Overview

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.

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Trailer · Whisky Galore! (1949) | Trailer | Basil Radford | Joan Greenwood | Catherine Lacey

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Cast

Gordon Jackson
as George Campbell

Joan Greenwood
as Peggy Macroon

James Robertson Justice
as Dr. Maclaren

Finlay Currie
as Narrator

John Gregson
as Sammy MacCodrun

Bruce Seton
as Sergeant Odd

Catherine Lacey
as Mrs. Waggett

James Anderson
as Old Hector

A.E. Matthews
as Colonel Linsey-Woolsey

Duncan Macrae
as Angus MacCormac

Wylie Watson
as Joseph Macroon

Basil Radford
as Captain Paul Waggett

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Release date: 1949-06-16

Runtime: 1h 22m

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ComedyCrime

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