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.
Acting
Eddie Izzard's magnificently wound-up English fop.
Production
Hebrides locations worth the entire budget.
Director
Gillies MacKinnon
Gregor Fisher
Macroon
Eddie Izzard
Captain Wagget
Naomi Battrick
Peggy Macroon
Ellie Kendrick
Catriona Macroon
Sean Biggerstaff
Sergeant Odd
Kevin Guthrie
George Campbell
James Cosmo
Macalister the Minister
Fenella Woolgar
Dolly Waggett
Michael Nardone
Brown
John Sessions
Doctor McLaren
Brian Pettifer
Angus
Iain Robertson
Sammy
Anthony Strachan
Biffer
Annie Louise Ross
Mrs. Campbell
Sean Scanlan
Old Roddy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1949 original was banned in the US for using the word 'whisky' too often—Prohibition hangover, apparently.
The SS Politician wreck that inspired this actually carried 264,000 bottles; islanders still occasionally find bottles buried in peat.
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A cross between Local Hero and Dad's Army! Heart warming. Leaves you with a glow. It's a film to "drink" and be merry. It's a tonic. Slainte!!
@kevinh5171 7
"We don't have a village idiot. We just take it in turns."
@fearreavers 14
Do we need another retelling of this? Ealing did it right, first time.
@fortworths 11
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