![]() The production spent ten years in development hell. There are problems, though the local minister (a strict Sabbatarian who will not allow work to take place on a Sunday) Captain Waggett, the Home Guard officer who wants to stop any looting and Farquharson the customs officer who also searches for the whisky in the islanders' homes afterwards. The SS Cabinet Minister was carrying 50,000 cases of Scotch whisky to the United States when she ran aground, affording the islanders the opportunity to get their hands on the "water of life". Set in the Second World War when whisky rationing is in effect, Scottish islanders on the fictional Isle of Todday try to plunder cases of whisky from a ship that is stranded on rocks just offshore. ![]() The principal film location was Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The film premiered at the 2016 Edinburgh Film Festival and went on general release in Scotland from and the rest of the UK, Ireland and the US from. It was directed by Gillies MacKinnon and stars Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard, Sean Biggerstaff and Naomi Battrick. ![]() Whisky Galore! is a 2016 British film, a remake of the 1949 Ealing Comedy of the same name, itself based on the novel by Compton Mackenzie. ![]()
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