Whisky Galore (1949)
(Tight Little Island)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 82m
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson
Synopsis:
Whisky runs out on the Outer Hebridean island of Todday in 1943, and gloom descends. Then providence takes a hand in the shape of a vessel carrying 50,000 cases of scotch and a bank of fog... There follows a battle of wits between the resourceful islanders and the stolid local Home Guard commander, with the odds stacked hopelessly against him.
Review:
Warm, witty, gentle comedy of local manners, of the kind they don't make any more for fear of causing offence. It has a cast of the finest British comedy could offer at the time and a wonderful one-note logic about the powers of the eponymous spirit to work miracles, until, that is, the end when it makes a strategic, and none too convinced, dash for cover from accusations of inciting drunkenness.
(Tight Little Island)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 82m
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson
Synopsis:
Whisky runs out on the Outer Hebridean island of Todday in 1943, and gloom descends. Then providence takes a hand in the shape of a vessel carrying 50,000 cases of scotch and a bank of fog... There follows a battle of wits between the resourceful islanders and the stolid local Home Guard commander, with the odds stacked hopelessly against him.
Review:
Warm, witty, gentle comedy of local manners, of the kind they don't make any more for fear of causing offence. It has a cast of the finest British comedy could offer at the time and a wonderful one-note logic about the powers of the eponymous spirit to work miracles, until, that is, the end when it makes a strategic, and none too convinced, dash for cover from accusations of inciting drunkenness.
(Tight Little Island)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 82m
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson
Synopsis:
Whisky runs out on the Outer Hebridean island of Todday in 1943, and gloom descends. Then providence takes a hand in the shape of a vessel carrying 50,000 cases of scotch and a bank of fog... There follows a battle of wits between the resourceful islanders and the stolid local Home Guard commander, with the odds stacked hopelessly against him.
Review:
Warm, witty, gentle comedy of local manners, of the kind they don't make any more for fear of causing offence. It has a cast of the finest British comedy could offer at the time and a wonderful one-note logic about the powers of the eponymous spirit to work miracles, until, that is, the end when it makes a strategic, and none too convinced, dash for cover from accusations of inciting drunkenness.