“No alcohol was consumed during the making of this film,” quip the closing credits of “Whisky Galore!” — a cute enough joke, though after watching this innocuous, unmemorable remake of the 1949 Ealing ...

The film Whisky Galore! is set in 1943 and concerns the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, who have been largely unaffected by wartime rationing, until their supply of whisky runs ...

Based on the novel by Sir Compton Mackenzie and with a star-studded cast lead by Eddie Izzard (Victoria & Abdul, TV’s Hannibal) and Gregor Fisher (TV’s Rab C. Nesbitt) heart-warming comedy, WHISKY ...

Britain has a grand tradition of good-natured comedies about the low-key charms of eccentric small-towners. One of the first and most enduring is 1949’s “Whisky Galore!,” the Alexander ...

Adapted from the novel by Compton Mackenzie, Whisky Galore – A Musical with book by Shona McKee McNeil and music and lyrics by Ian Hammond Brown marks Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s full-blown musical ...

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“Whisky Galore!” is a beloved movie from 1949, one of the Ealing comedies that define a specific moment in post-war British culture (my personal favourite is “The Ladykillers”). Based on the 1947 ...

Eddie Izzard leads the cast in Gillies MacKinnon's remake of the beloved 1949 Ealing Studios comedy 'Whisky Galore.' By THR Staff Remakes of the classic Ealing Studios comedies (several of which ...