

Whisky Galore!
Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.
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- Language
- English
- island
- based on novel or book
- scotland
- shipwreck
- world war ii
- whiskey
- black and white
- home front
- food rationing
- 1940s
- hebrides, scotland
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical25 Dec 1949
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU16 Jun 1949
FranceFR
- Theatrical8 Oct 2014
NetherlandsNL
- PhysicalALDVD17 Sept 2009
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Whisky Galore! was released on 16 June 1949.
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1- C8/10
CinemaSerf
3/27/2022
Based on a real incident some 8 years earlier, this film tells the story of a whisky-starved Scottish island that gets the windfall to end all windfalls - a ship carrying an enormous cargo of Scotch runs aground. The islanders are determined to salvage whatever they can, despite the best efforts of the local Home Guard Captain (an Englishman - Basil Radford) and the Excise men. This is a gentle little comedy that pul…
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