Whisky Galore!

1949

English

7.1

♡ 5

96%

84%

Action

based on novel or book

Alexander Mackendrick Director

Basil Radford as Captain Paul Waggett

James Robertson Justice as Dr. Maclaren

Gordon Jackson as George Campbell

Bruce Seton as Sergeant Odd

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.