Whisky Galore (DVD)

Classic Ealing comedy. During the Second World War, the inhabitants of a small Hebridean island are wilting under a chronic shortage of whisky. When a ship is wrecked on the shore, it is discovered to contain 50,000 cases of malt, which are promptly appropriated by the menfolk of the island. All is well until an English Home Guard commander - determined to see the whisky restored to its rightful owners - calls in Her Majesty's Customs, and the islanders make frantic attempts to hide their treasured alcoholic booty!

General

Studio:	Optimum Home Entertainment
Release date:	August 2011
Movie released:	1948
Actors:	Basil Radford • Joan Greenwood • James Robertson Justice • Jean Cadell • Gordon Jackson • Gabrielle Blunt • Morland Graham • John Gregson • Catherine Lacey • A.E. Matthews • Henry Mollison • Bruce Seton • Wylie Watson • Duncan Macrae
Contributors:	Michael Balcon • Compton Mackenzie • Angus MacPhail • Ernest Irving • Gerald Gibbs
Directors:	Alexander Mackendrick
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Languages:	English
Age restriction:	PG
Categories:	DVD > Classics DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	XU9-LKM-RNE-6
Barcode:	5055201815644

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• Interactive Menus
• Interviews: Hilary Mackendrick, wife of Alexander Mackendrick
• Commentary: Audio commentary by British cinema expert John Ellis
• Other Documentary: 'Distilling Whisky Galore!', 'Whisky Galore: A Personal History'

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Whisky Galore

Thu, 29 Aug 2013 | Review by: Micky B

One of the first (and best!) of the post-World War II British comedies; this neat little offering is made even more humorous in the knowledge that it is actually based on a true happening! The year is 1943, and the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday in the Outer Hebrides are largely unaffected by wartime rationing. That is, until they completely run out of <i>whisky,</i> and the entire island goes into a kind of mourning! However, in a thick fog,a ship – the “S.S.Politician” – runs aground nearby , and the islanders learn that there is a cargo of 50 000 cases of Best Scotch on board! Being a Sunday, there is nothing that they can do about it immediately. However, at about ten minutes past midnight on (just) Monday morning, roughly 50 thousand cases of whisky mysteriously disappear from the stranded vessel! The commannder of the Home Guard (Basil Radford) and the excise men search the entire island for the missing cargo – but to no avail! The wily, ingenious islanders have secreted their spoils in every liquid-holding vessel they can get their hands on.(including hot-water bottles, ammunition cases, and the local water supply!) Local Scottish customs may now be met, and the shy local schoolteacher (a very young Gordon Jackson) may get married to his fiancee, and also English sergeant (Bruce Seaton) to his beloved, Peggy (Joanne Greenwood.) The remainder of the cast comprises both Scottish and Irish actors, who include James Robertson Justice; Compton McKenzie (who also wrote and directed;) Gabrielle Blunt; John Gregson and Duncan Macrae. If you're as much a fan of true British comedy as I am, then this movie is an ABSOLUTE MUST!!!

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