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Whisky Galore! (1949)

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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 : Jun 16, 1949

Runtime : 1h 22m

Genre : Comedy  Crime  

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


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