Whisky Galore!
6.8(154) 1949-06-16 82 minComedyCrime
Whisky Galore! is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios, starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. It was the directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick; the screenplay was by Compton Mackenzie, an adaptation of his 1947 novel Whisky Galore, and Angus MacPhail. The story—based on a true event, the running aground of the SS Politician—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, some of which they salvage, against the opposition of the local Customs and Excise men.
ScreenplayAngus MacPhail
Original Music ComposerErnest Irving
DirectorAlexander Mackendrick
ScreenplayCompton MacKenzie
ProducerMichael Balcon
Cast & characters
Basil Radford
as Captain Paul Waggett
Bruce Seton
as Sergeant Odd
Gordon Jackson
as George Campbell
Wylie Watson
as Joseph Macroon
Morland Graham
as The Biffer
John Gregson
as Sammy MacCodrun
Joan Greenwood
as Peggy Macroon
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Gabrielle Blunt
as Catriona Macroon
Catherine Lacey
as Mrs. Waggett
Jean Cadell
as Mrs. Campbell
James Robertson Justice
as Dr. Maclaren
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James Woodburn
as Roderick MacRurie
Jameson Clark
as Constable Macrae
Duncan Macrae
as Angus MacCormac
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Mary MacNeil
as Mrs. MacCormac
Norman MacOwan
as Captain MacPhee
Alastair Hunter
as Captain MacKechnie
Henry Mollison
as Mr. Farquharson
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Frank Webster
as First Mate
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Compton MacKenzie
as Captain Buncher
James Anderson
as Old Hector
Cyril Chamberlain
as —
Finlay Currie
as Narrator
A.E. Matthews
as Colonel Linsey-Woolsey
