Year: 1949
Genre:
Comedy, Crime
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 7,3 (NEVAZUT)
Country: UK
Language: English
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Writer: Compton MacKenzie, Angus MacPhail
Composer: Ernest Irving
Producer: Michael Balcon, Monja Danischewsky
Actors: Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Wylie Watson, Gabrielle Blunt, Gordon Jackson, Jean Cadell, James Robertson Justice, Morland Graham, John Gregson, James Woodburn, James Anderson, Jameson Clark, Duncan Macrae, Mary MacNeil, Norman MacOwan, Alastair Hunter, Henry Mollison, Frank Webster, Compton MacKenzie, Cyril Chamberlain, Finlay Currie, A.E. Matthews
Description: 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.
Comments: Originally released in Great Britain as Whisky Galore!, Tight Little Island is a comedy predicated on the notion that all Scotsmen are lushes. The tiny Scots Island of Todday suffers from a wartime whisky shortage. Luck of luck, a ship full of the precious liquid is wrecked on a reef. The islanders conspire to smuggle the whisky off the ship right under the noses of the pesky British revenue officials. Numerous clever comic complications occur before the happy ending—which, we are told by the narrator, was not so happy once all the whisky was consumed. Tight Little Island is regarded by devotees of British comedy as the best and most representative offering from the short-lived Ealing Studios. — Hal Erickson
Duration: 82 minutes (at 25 frames per second)
File path: Z:\05575. Whisky Galore! (1949)\Whisky Galore! (1949).avi
Filesize: 700 MB
Video: XviD - resolution: 512x384 - quality: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
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Subtitles: English, Serbian