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The inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday in the Outer Hebrides are largely unaffected by wartime rationing until 1943, when the supply of whisky runs out. As a result, gloom descends on the disconsolate islanders. In the midst of this catastrophe, Sergeant Odd returns on leave from the army to court Peggy, the daughter of the local shopkeeper, Joseph Macroon. Odd had previously assisted with setting up the island's Home Guard unit. Meanwhile, Macroon's other daughter, Catriona, has just become engaged to a meek schoolteacher, George Campbell, although Campbell's stern, domineering mother refuses to give her approval.

During a night-time fog, the freighter SS Cabinet Minister runs aground near Todday in heavy fog and begins to sink. Two local inhabitants, the Biffer and Sammy MacCodrun, row out to lend assistance, and learn from its departing crew that the cargo consists of 50,000 cases of whisky. They quickly spread the news.

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A battle of wits ensues between Waggett, who wants to confiscate the salvaged cargo, and the islanders. Waggett brings in Macroon's old Customs and Excise nemesis, Mr Farquharson, and his men to search for the whisky. Forewarned, islanders manage to hide the bottles in ingenious places, including the ammunition cases that Waggett ships off the island. When the whisky is discovered in the cases, Waggett is recalled by his superiors on the mainland to explain himself, leaving the locals triumphant.

The screenplay was written by Compton Mackenzie and Angus MacPhail, based on Mackenzie's novel; Mackenzie received 500 for the rights to the book and a further 1,000 because of the film's profitability.[7] Mackendrick and Danischewsky also worked on the script before further input from the writers Elwyn Ambrose and Donald Campbell and the actor James Robertson Justice, who also appeared in the film.[8] The film and novel's story was based on an incident in the Second World War, when the cargo ship SS Politician ran aground in 1941 off the north coast of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides. Local inhabitants from the island and from nearby South Uist heard that the ship was carrying 22,000 cases of whisky; they rescued up to 7,000 cases from the wreck before it sank. Mackenzie, a Home Guard commander on the island, took no action against the removal of the whisky or those who took it;[9][10] Charles McColl and Ivan Gledhill, the local Customs and Excise officers, undertook raids and arrested many of those who had looted whisky.[11]

The church hall on the island was converted into a makeshift studio, which included basic soundproofing. Nearly everything had to be brought from the mainland for filming and many of the sets had been prefabricated in Ealing; the islanders were perplexed by some of the items the crew brought with them, such as the artificial rocks they added to the already rock-strewn landscape.[22][23] The studio also had to send out three cases of dummy whisky bottles, as the island was short of the real equivalent because of rationing.[24] The location shooting meant the use of a mobile studio unit for filming. This was one of the earliest uses by a British studio.[25]

Danischewsky later called the film "the longest unsponsored advertisement ever to reach cinema screens the world over"; the whisky producer The Distillers Company later presented those associated with the film a bottle of whisky each, given at a dinner at the Savoy Hotel in London.[37]

One scene in the film, soon after the first whisky has been rescued from the ship, shows the male islanders celebrating the return of whisky to the island by drinking and singing in unison in puirt beul (trans: "mouth music"). According to McArthur, the music and the action show a social, communal event, with whisky the central focus of their enjoyment.[42] The tune was "Brochan Lom", a nonsense song about porridge.[43] The scene mixed the professional actors and local islanders; Crichton said it was not possible to differentiate between the two in the final film.[44]

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The island is largely unaffected by wartime shortages until its allocation of whisky runs out, to the consternation of the islanders, for whom the drink is considered an essential part of their lives.

During a night-time fog, the freighter SS Cabinet Minister runs aground near the island. As the ship begins to sink and is abandoned by her crew, the islanders learn that her cargo includes 50,000 crates of Scotch whisky, destined for New York. They prepare to start salvaging the cargo, but are forced to wait 24 hours as it is now the Sabbath.

Waggett is called to the mainland to be questioned by his superiors after the discovery of several bottles of whisky (planted by the islanders) in a case of ammunition which Waggett had shipped to the mainland. While he is away, the weddings of both couples take place during the summer solstice, the celebrations being enlivened by liberal supplies of the "water of life".[2]

Sadly, it is not just the tone which is different to the original but also the storyline has been changed. A new character in the form of an MOD agent is added to the story because the ship SS Cabinet Minister has more than whisky on it now. There is furniture but also a red government box. This entire sub plot with references to Edward VIII and love letters is completely redundant to the film and adds nothing to the story with only a single loose redundant connector when he phones the post office ahead of the HMRC cutter approaching the island.

It is not all bad news though because my favourite scene from the original was retained. When George Campbell confronts his mother he drowns out her reaction with a loud and energetic bagpipe recital. Something I hope to recreate with my next martial argument. Also, the BS about whisky being the devil was removed from the ending as America is all grown up.

I had the most amazing time and it was the best way to spend my Saturday afternoon! Sometimes I forgot that I was watching a play with actors and actresses instead of a real group of Hebridean islanders bickering about whisky and weddings!

Everybody was cast perfectly, nobody was out of place and the acting chemistry and comedic timing was off the charts

Make sure you brush up on your Scots and Gaelic before you go (still amazed by how some of the cast were using different accents than their own in real life!)

On the morning of 5 February 1941 she set sail from Liverpool bound for New York, carrying many thousands of bottles of Scotch whisky amongst a mixed cargo. Her consignment also included significant amounts of Jamaican currency.

The film version of events concerns the fictitious Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday, where a cargo of 50,000 bottles of whisky is salvaged from a shipwrecked freighter, the SS Cabinet Minister, by the islanders, whose own supplies have tragically run dry.

For example, in a scene after bottles have been liberated, the men of the island celebrate the return of whisky. They drink and sing together in puirt beul, or mouth music. All-in-all it is a joyous event with the illicit whisky being the trigger.

When released, the film was embraced by cinema goers and critics alike. In France it is known as Whisky Gogo, however when released in the USA in December 1949 it had to drop the whisky reference. There were restrictions on the use of the names of alcohol in titles so the film was rebranded Tight Little Island.

I am all amaze. I was expecting no one to give a toss but there appears to be wide enthusiasm for the project. Expect further coverage over the coming months including whisky death matches, therefore.

I just started my journey around the world of whiskey (and whisky) recently as well. My favorite Islay scotch so far is Lagavulin 16 year old. I find myself drinking more bourbon currently, but every time I watch Mad Men I feel like I should have a dram of scotch in hand.

The SS Politician was carrying all manner of trade goods, from cotton to medicines to biscuits, but the ship is best remembered for the contents of Hold Number 5: some 264,000 bottles of Scotch whisky.

I was particularly tickled with the Wild Western vibe the whammy guitar gave us to enhance the comedy, as the characters reminded me of outlawed cowboys stealing whisky and being chased by the posse, in this case the customs men.

When a Scottish island falls prey to a whisky shortage, the islanders are desolate. But when by chance a ship is sunk with a cargo of 50,000 cases of whisky, they see their salvation. But first they must outwit the English Home Guard commander who is determined to protect the cargo at all costs.

Whisky Galore! was adapted by Compton Mackenzie and Angus MacPhail from Mackenzie's novel, itself based on the true story of a famous incident in 1941, in which the SS Politician - whose cargo included 22,000 cases of whisky - was wrecked near the Hebridean islands of Eriskay and South Uist. Dozens of boats from every nearby island soon set upon the wreck, rescuing some 7,000 cases from a watery end.

Unlike the gentle comedy of Passport to Pimlico, Whisky Galore!'s humour has an often cruel bite, most of it at the expense of the pompous English Home Guard commander, Waggett (Radford), whose efforts to frustrate the islanders' pursuit of whisky result only in his own undoing.

The SS Politician was an 8000-tonne cargo ship which left Liverpool on the 3rd February 1941 laden with amongst other things 260,000 bottles of whisky, bound for Kingston in Jamaica and New Orleans. The whisky was for the American market and therefore no duty had been paid. She sailed up past the Isle of Man towards the Hebrides where the winds increased to gale force. e24fc04721