Whisky Galore!

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.

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  Basil Radford

  Captain Paul Waggett
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  Bruce Seton

  Sergeant Odd
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  Gordon Jackson

  George Campbell
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  Wylie Watson

  Joseph Macroon
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  Morland Graham

  The Biffer
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  John Gregson

  Sammy MacCodrun
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  Joan Greenwood

  Peggy Macroon
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  Catherine Lacey

  Mrs. Waggett
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  Jean Cadell

  Mrs. Campbell
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  James Robertson Justice

  Dr. Maclaren