Whisky Galore!
82 min
1949
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Whisky Galore!
Whisky Galore!
82 min
1949
6.8
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.
Country
Released
16 Jun, 1949
island
based on novel or book
scotland
shipwreck
world war ii
whiskey
home front
food rationing
1940s
hebrides, scotland
