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Whisky Galore! (1949) was a Comedy - Black-and-white Film directed by Alexander Mackendrick and produced by Michael Balcon and Monja Danischewsky.

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Ealing Comedy #4: Whisky Galore! (Alexander Mackendrick, 1949)

By Virginie Pronovost on Dec 23, 2022 From The Wonderful World of Cinema

The journey across the Ealing comedies continues today with Whisky Galore!, a 1949 film that introduced two critical figures to these films: director Alexander Mackendrick and actress Joan Greenwood. By the way, I just discovered that Alexander Mackendrick also directed Sweet Smell of Success (1957)... Read full article

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Whisky Galore! Quotes:

Captain Paul Waggett: [Speaking about the islanders] They're so unsporting. They don't do things for the sake of doing them like the English. We play the game for the sake of the game. Other nations play the game for the sake of winning it.
Narrator: [describing the inhabitants of Todday as children run out of a cottage] A happy people, with few and simple pleasures.
Narrator: To the west, there is nothing. Except America.
Farquharson: My men are experts.
Captain Paul Waggett: So are the Todday people, at hiding whisky!
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Whisky Galore! Facts
James Thurber suggested that the film be called "Scotch on the Rocks".
American censors insisted on a coda being inserted at the end of the film, stating that the stolen whisky brought nothing but unhappiness to the islanders, even though quite the opposite was true in real life.
The author of the original novel, Compton MacKenzie, plays the captain of the ship that runs aground on the island. In reality, Mackenzie took great exception to the number of takes that director Alexander Mackendrick made him do.
In the original novel, the island was populated with both Catholics and Calvinists. The Catholics were dropped from the film as they would have had no trouble with not observing the Sabbath to salvage the whisky-laden ship.
Debuting director Alexander Mackendrick's background was in advertising where he used the technique of storyboarding. He did this for this picture, making it the first Ealing film to be storyboarded.
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