Whisky Galore! (film) Mackenzie also wrote a sequel, Rockets Galore!
, which was filmed by the Rank Organisation in 1957. An attempt was made to produce a remake of the film between 2004 and 2006.[2][3] Whisky Galore (1949. Whisky Galore! (1949) Whisky Galore!
Was the second of three films released in 1949 - the others were Passport to Pimlico (d. Henry Cornelius) and Kind Hearts and Coronets (d. Whisky Galore. Whisky Galore (1949, UK), the classic Ealing comedy, is set on the fictional Hebridean island of Todday.
Directed by Alexander MacKendrick and starring Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood, the film is set in 1943 when a cargo ship with 50,000 cases of Scotch runs aground. Racing time and the English Home Guard officer in charge of law and order, the whisky-starved islanders single-mindedly scheme to salvage what they can from the wreck. Whisky Galore is about to have a remake.
Known as "Tight Little Island" is the U.S., the true story behind the film is stranger still... Whisky Galore - It was in 1941, two years earlier than the film was set, when the SS Politician ran aground at Calvay, just off of the island of Eriskay. Whisky Galore – review. High spirits: Basil Radford in Whisky Galore.
Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive The year 1949 was a pretty miserable time in Britain. Postwar austerity was at its height. Whisky Galore! – review. This summer has seen a string of classic Ealing reissues, and continues with this: beguiling, subversive and a complete joy.
Basil Radford plays a flustered Englishman sent to command a Home Guard force on a remote Scottish island during the second world war. He is pop-eyed with indignation to find that his men, along with the entire civilian population – maddened by a wartime alcohol shortage – are secretly intent on plundering 50,000 cases of whisky from a shipwreck. This tale of an outsider failing to come to grips with a tight-knit community could be screened as a triple bill with Local Hero ("Oil-money galore") and The Wicker Man ("Occult conspiracy galore"). Insouciantly, the film finally reveals that the mass pilfering drove whisky prices up, and eventually caused another booze famine.
Whisky Galore Film Limited. Whisky Galore. Edward Montagu Compton Mackenzie was born on 17 January 1883 in West Hartlepool, Durham, son of the actor Edward Compton.
He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and graduated with a degree in Modern History. He then turned towards legal training for a short while before starting to write. Mackenzie was a prolific author, writing numerous novels and poems, in addition to serving in the First World War in the Dardanelles and Greece. Mackenzie was also an enthusiastic Scottish nationalist and lived in Scotland from 1928, settling on the island of Barra in the Hebrides.
He helped found the Scottish National Party and was Rector of Glasgow University, 1931-1934. The Legend of Whisky Galore. BBC Radio 4 Extra - Compton Mackenzie - Whisky Galore. Basil Radford. Basil Radford (25 June 1897 Chester, Cheshire – 20 October 1952 London) was an English character actor who featured in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s.
He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his first stage appearance in July 1924. He is probably best-remembered for his appearances alongside Naunton Wayne as two cricket-obsessed Englishmen in several films from 1938-1949. Film career[edit] Radford had a crescent-shaped scar on his right cheek from serving in the trenches during the First World War.[1] Depending on the camera angle and the lighting, it was sometimes barely perceptible but sometimes extremely prominent, as in The Way to the Stars. Death[edit] Radford's health began seriously to fail in the summer of 1951, forcing him to take a long break from acting.
Personal life[edit] In 1926 he married Shirley Deuchars. Selected filmography[edit] * Charters and Caldicott films References[edit] External links[edit] Joan Greenwood. Joan Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 28 February 1987) was an English actress.
Born in Chelsea, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark. She may be best remembered for her role as Sibella in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). Life and career[edit] Greenwood worked mainly on the stage, where she had a long career, appearing with Donald Wolfit's theatre company in the years following World War II. Gordon Jackson (actor) In 1989, he was diagnosed with bone cancer.
He died the following year, aged 66, in London and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.[5] Gordon Jackson. Catherine Lacey. Whisky Galore. Whisky Galore - drinking song.
Chivas Brothers: Whisky galore... down the drain: Thousands of litres of the spirit were thrown away in a bottling plant mix-up. The whisky was accidentally flushed away at a Chivas Brothers bottling plant Blundering workers drained the spirit instead of waste water Smell was so strong that it was reported by sewage workers By Jane Borland Published: 01:42 GMT, 1 March 2013 | Updated: 08:01 GMT, 1 March 2013 Blundering workers at Chivas Brothers, which produces Ballantine's, threw thousands of litres of whisky away.
