Whisky Galore! 1949 123movies

Watch: Whisky Galore! 1949 123movies, Full Movie Online – Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year..
Plot: Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
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Art and Entertainment Galore
Along with classical music Compton Mackenzie certainly knew his stuff when he wrote Whisky Galore, basing it on true events that happened in 1941. I always preferred the film. The quality of the video I made from UK BBC2 on 28th Dec 1988 was excellent, but there are budget editions out there so if interested best be careful. This is one of Ealing’s handful of timeless first class classics, one that is always shown on TV and has passed into British movie folklore. Its depiction of the Sabbath-keeping Scottish islanders is only just passing into history as the inhabitants of the Outer Hebrides are only gradually establishing Sunday communications with the mainland.

Insular isolated island runs out of whisky but a cargo ship with 50,000 cases of the muck runs aground nearby. Happy times return, against all the efforts of Basil Radford as the local snooty (English) Home Guard Captain. Bruce Seton was actually a rather weather-beaten 40 to Joan Greenwood’s 28 but they surely made a splendid non whisky drinking couple especially at the dance. Favourite bits: The church clock striking for the arrival of Monday morning and the consequent sudden activity; The group of men singing lustily and making hay with their first drink for ages; Hiding the muck from the Excise men, and so much more to watch and savour over and over again.

Ealing Studios went to Barra in summer 1948 and filmed this in 3 months for £80,000 – over-budget, too! When I think of the enormous pleasure that it’s given me and so many others over the decades I would think that it was money very well spent, unlike any that might be spent on a pointless remake.

Pleasant enough, but weak sauce
‘Whisky Galore!’ is one of the slightest of the Ealing comedies, a short tale of canny Scottish Highlanders running rings around pompous officialdom in order to get their hands of a cargo of illicit spirit. There are some laughs, the best at the expense of the local puritans, but it’s a minor tale, and the concluding joke feels like something tacked on in the edit. Better to watch ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’, released in the same year, a film of far greater cinematic inventiveness.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 22 min (82 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Comedy, Crime
Director Alexander Mackendrick
Writer Compton MacKenzie, Angus MacPhail
Actors Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Catherine Lacey
Country United Kingdom
Awards Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 win & 1 nomination total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,284 m (Netherlands)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm