Whisky Galore! (1949)
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
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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There's a fair whiff of "Whisky Galore" to these often amusing characters, but for the most part, their keenness to get wealthy strikes a realistic chord that provides a solid foundation for the humour.
…there's a comic sequence of Rudolf Hess' trip to Scotland that seems more of a pastiche in the vein of Whisky Galore!