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Release Date:
25 December 1949 (USA) more
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A Highland fling on a tight little island
Plot:
Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
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Cast

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Basil Radford ... Captain Paul Waggett
Catherine Lacey ... Mrs Waggett
Bruce Seton ... Sergeant Odd
Joan Greenwood ... Peggy Macroon
Wylie Watson ... Joseph Macroon
Gabrielle Blunt ... Catriona Macroon
Gordon Jackson ... George Campbell
Jean Cadell ... Mrs Campbell
James Robertson Justice ... Dr Maclaren
Morland Graham ... The Biffer
John Gregson ... Sammy MacCodrun
James Woodburn ... Roderick MacRurie
James Anderson ... Old Hector
Jameson Clark ... Constable Macrae
Duncan Macrae ... Angus McCormac
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Tight Little Island (USA)
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Runtime:
82 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Monja Danischewsky had been working as a publicist for Ealing Studios and was bored with his job. To stop him from leaving, Michael Balcon gave him the task of producing this film. more
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Revealing mistakes: When Captain Waggett telephones the Post Office, he is unable to get through to the switchboard operator. Seconds later, he is speaking to Mistress Campbell. He could not possibly do so without the Post Office switchboard connecting him. more
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Dr Maclaren: It's a well known fact that some men were born two drinks below par. more
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Art and Entertainment Galore, 9 April 2006
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Author: Gary170459 from Derby, UK

Compton Mackenzie along with classical music 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 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 relaxing 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 Sudios 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.

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