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Whisky Galore! (1949)

Whisky Galore! (1949)

Crime Comedy
Release Date: 1949, June 16
Directors: Alexander Mackendrick
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Ealing Studios, General Film Distributors
Cast: Finlay Currie, Gordon Jackson, James Anderson, Duncan Macrae, John Gregson, A.E. Matthews, Norman MacOwan, Alastair Hunter, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice, Wylie Watson, Gabrielle Blunt

Overview:

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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based on novel or book world war ii 1940s island black and white shipwreck scotland home front food rationing hebrides, scotland whiskey