Whisky Galore! (1949 film)
Whisky Galore! is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios. It was the directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick. The film became the first from the studios to achieve box office success. It has since been adapted for the stage, and a remake was released in 2016.
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Whisky Galore! is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios. It was the directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick. The story concerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky because of wartime rationing. The islanders find out the ship is carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, which they salvage, against the opposition of the local Customs and Excise men. The film became the first from the studios to achieve box office success. It has since been adapted for the stage, and a remake was released in 2016. It came out in the same year as Passport to Pimlico and Kind Hearts and Coronets, leading to 1949 being remembered as one of the peak years of the Ealing comedies. In the US, it was renamed Tight Little Island, It was followed by a sequel, Rockets Galore!. Whisky Galores! was produced by Michael Balcon, the head of the studio; he appointed Monja Danischewsky as the associate producer in his first job in the production department. The weather was so poor that the production over-ran its 10-week schedule by five weeks, and the film went £20,000 over budget. When the whisky is discovered in the mainland, Waggett is recalled to his superiors to explain himself, leaving the locals triumphant. The locals manage to offload many cases before the ship goes down.
This proves fortunate, as Campbell rescues the Biffer when he is trapped in the sinking freighter. The whisky also gives the previously teetotal Campbell the courage to stand up to his mother and insist that he will marry Catriona. A battle of wits ensues between Wag gett, who wants to confiscate the salvaged cargo, and. Mr Farquharson, and his men to search for the whisky. When the cases are found, the islanders manage to hide the bottles in ingenious places, including the ammunition cases on the island. The film was produced at the same time as Passport to Pimlica and Kind Hearts and Coronet, with all the directors working on the studio’s projects working on other directors’ projects, including Monja Danischew Sky, who was considering a position in the advertising department in Fleet Street; he was becoming bored by the work and considering a job in Whisky Street. It was the first Ealing film to be released in the U.S., where it was called Tight Little Island and was the first to be released in the United States, where it became the first from the studios to acquire box office success in the United Sector of the studios of Ealing and Kind Hearts and Coronets. It is based on a true event concerns a shipwreck off the Outer Hebrides in 1943.
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