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Tight Little Island (Whisky Galore!)

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Comedy
Release Date:December 25, 1949
Running time:82 minutes
Cast:Joan Greenwood, Basil Radford, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson, James Justice
Director:Alexander Mackendrick
Producer:Michael Balcon
Writer:Compton MacKenzie
Distributor:Universal Pictures

Description: A bunch of Scottish Islanders are determined to hold on to a cargo of shipwrecked whisky, whatever the cost. In 1941, the SS Politician, en route to Jamaica, sank off the coast of Eriskay carrying 250,000 bottles of whisky, which the locals gleefully looted. Bottles are still to this day carried in by the tides to the beach. It must be a wonderful place to live.

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