Whisky Galore! (1949)
6.8
/10 By 128 Votes
Overview : 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.
Release Date : June 16, 1949
Runtime : 82m
Companies : Ealing Studios, General Film Distributors
Countries : United Kingdom
Keywords : island, based on novel or book, scotland, shipwreck, world war ii, whiskey, home front, food rationing, 1940s, hebrides, scotland
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