Whisky Galore! (1949)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK | Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Language: English | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 83mn
Bdrip H264 Mkv – 1478×1080 – 24fps – 3.18gb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042040/
Audio 2: Commentary by British cinema expert John Ellis
The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941–during WWII–was SS Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank in bad weather outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 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. Based on a true story.
American censors of the day insisted on a coda being inserted at the end of the film stating that the stolen whisky brought nothing but unhappiness to the islanders, although in real life quite the opposite was true.
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