Whisky Galore
- Romance
- Comedy
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
Whisky Galore is a 2016 comedy-romance film set on a remote Scottish island during World War II. When a cargo ship carrying whisky runs aground near Todday in the Outer Hebrides, the resourceful locals devise a clever scheme to hide the precious cargo from an incompetent English Home Guard commander. The film captures the wit and ingenuity of islanders determined to outwit wartime rationing.
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Gregor FisherMacroon
Suzy Eddie IzzardCaptain Wagget
Naomi BattrickPeggy Macroon
Ellie KendrickCatriona Macroon
Sean BiggerstaffSergeant Odd
Kevin GuthrieGeorge Campbell
James CosmoMacalister the Minister
Fenella WoolgarDolly Waggett
Michael NardoneBrown
John SessionsDoctor McLaren
Brian PettiferAngus
Iain RobertsonSammy
Anthony StrachanBiffer
Annie Louise RossMrs. Campbell
Sean ScanlanOld Roddy
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When was Whisky Galore released?
Whisky Galore was released on June 26, 2016.
What is the plot about?
The film follows the residents of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, whose wartime whisky rations run out until a cargo ship runs aground nearby. The islanders then conspire to secretly obtain and hide cases of whisky while outmaneuvering the bumbling English Home Guard commander, Captain Waggett.
Is this movie based on anything?
Yes, Whisky Galore is based on the classic 1947 film of the same name, which was adapted from Compton Mackenzie's novel about the real historical event of the SS Cabinet Minister running aground in the Scottish Hebrides during World War II.
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