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[julian_craster]

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Whisky Galore! – review

Whisky Galore
Production year: 1949
Country: UK
Cert (UK): U
Runtime: 81 mins
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood

The Ealing classic about Scottish islanders attempting to liberate a boatload of alcohol comes up sparkling in this wonderful reissue
5 out of 5


by Peter Bradshaw

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 28 July 2011
Whisky Galore!


This summer has seen a string of classic Ealing reissues, and continues with this: beguiling, subversive and a complete joy. Basil Radford plays a flustered Englishman sent to command a Home Guard force on a remote Scottish island during the second world war. He is pop-eyed with indignation to find that his men, along with the entire civilian population – maddened by a wartime alcohol shortage – are secretly intent on plundering 50,000 cases of whisky from a shipwreck. This tale of an outsider failing to come to grips with a tight-knit community could be screened as a triple bill with Local Hero ("Oil-money galore") and The Wicker Man ("Occult conspiracy galore"). Insouciantly, the film finally reveals that the mass pilfering drove whisky prices up, and eventually caused another booze famine. So victimless crime doesn't pay? Well, this looks like mere lip-service being paid to the moral justice of the free market. The film's sympathies are entirely with the drinkers. Perhaps it couldn't be made in today's sober times.

[Mr Sloane]

See Captain Waggett on the big screen....



Whisky Galore! – review

Whisky Galore
Production year: 1949
Country: UK
Cert (UK): U
Runtime: 81 mins
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood

The Ealing classic about Scottish islanders attempting to liberate a boatload of alcohol comes up sparkling in this wonderful reissue
5 out of 5


by Peter Bradshaw

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 28 July 2011
Whisky Galore!


This summer has seen a string of classic Ealing reissues, and continues with this: beguiling, subversive and a complete joy. Basil Radford plays a flustered Englishman sent to command a Home Guard force on a remote Scottish island during the second world war. He is pop-eyed with indignation to find that his men, along with the entire civilian population – maddened by a wartime alcohol shortage – are secretly intent on plundering 50,000 cases of whisky from a shipwreck. This tale of an outsider failing to come to grips with a tight-knit community could be screened as a triple bill with Local Hero ("Oil-money galore") and The Wicker Man ("Occult conspiracy galore"). Insouciantly, the film finally reveals that the mass pilfering drove whisky prices up, and eventually caused another booze famine. So victimless crime doesn't pay? Well, this looks like mere lip-service being paid to the moral justice of the free market. The film's sympathies are entirely with the drinkers. Perhaps it couldn't be made in today's sober times.

Spoiler

  Spoiler:

While the narrative and body of the family is in sympathy with the drinkers the epilogue makes clear they suffer for their sins

[Steve Crook]

Spoiler

  Spoiler:

While the narrative and body of the family is in sympathy with the drinkers the epilogue makes clear they suffer for their sins

Of course, how many films from that time let someone get away with breaking the rules without any consequences?

Steve

[CaptainWaggett]

Spoiler

  Spoiler:

While the narrative and body of the family is in sympathy with the drinkers the epilogue makes clear they suffer for their sins

And rightly so Surely no right-minded person would defend looting It leads to anarchy

[Mr Sloane]

Here is the case the book and film are based on
SS Politician - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Rick C]

Radio feature (last night 27 July) on the BBC Radio 4 arts programme 'Front Row' regarding the Ealing Classics re-issue, with special reference to 'Lavender Hill Mob' and 'Whisky Galore'.

[CaptainWaggett]

Here is the case the book and film are based on
SS Politician - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This book is very good and has a lot about the history of Barra as well as covering the making of the film

Polly: The True Story Behind Whisky Galore: Amazon.co.uk: Roger Hutchinson: Books

[bruiser15]

This book is very good and has a lot about the history of Barra as well as covering the making of the film

Polly: The True Story Behind Whisky Galore: Amazon.co.uk: Roger Hutchinson: Books

Must concur bought a copy in Oban on holiday and thoroughly enjoyed it. particularily like the two production shots of them replacing the rocks on Barra with artificial ones because they were unphotogenic and the building of interior croft sets above Castlebay as the local crofts were unauthentic and gloomily lit.

[CaptainWaggett]

Must concur bought a copy in Oban on holiday and thoroughly enjoyed it. particularily like the two production shots of them replacing the rocks on Barra with artificial ones because they were unphotogenic and the building of interior croft sets above Castlebay as the local crofts were unauthentic and gloomily lit.

And don't forget the totally practical papier mache wreck

[Mr Sloane]

And don't forget the totally practical papier mache wreck

I hope the whisky was the real thing

[Gerald Lovell]

The title of this thread had me quite excited because I thought we were going to see OUR Captain Waggett on the big screen.

[jimw1]

The title of this thread had me quite excited because I thought we were going to see OUR Captain Waggett on the big screen.

Me too Gerald.................

[CaptainWaggett]

The title of this thread had me quite excited because I thought we were going to see OUR Captain Waggett on the big screen.

Not unless the BBFC is abolished

[Steve Crook]

The title of this thread had me quite excited because I thought we were going to see OUR Captain Waggett on the big screen.

OUR Captain Waggett is famous enough anyway. Even my aged mum from the wilds of Welsh west Wales has met OUR Captain Waggett

Steve

[narabdela]

Not unless the BBFC is abolished

[Onedin]

The title of this thread had me quite excited because I thought we were going to see OUR Captain Waggett on the big screen.

Me too Gerald.................

Me three...................