 | Basil Radford | ... | Captain Paul Waggett |
| Catherine Lacey | ... | Mrs. Waggett |
| Bruce Seton | ... | Sergeant Odd |
| Joan Greenwood | ... | Peggy Macroon |
| Wylie Watson | ... | Joseph Macroon |
| Gabrielle Blunt | ... | Catriona Macroon |
| Gordon Jackson | ... | George Campbell |
| Jean Cadell | ... | Mrs. Campbell |
| James Robertson Justice | ... | Dr. Maclaren |
| Morland Graham | ... | The Biffer |
| John Gregson | ... | Sammy MacCodrun |
| James Woodburn | ... | Roderick MacRurie |
| James Anderson | ... | Old Hector |
| Jameson Clark | ... | Constable Macrae |
| Duncan Macrae | ... | Angus MacCormac |
| Mary MacNeil | ... | Mrs. MacCormac |
| Norman MacOwan | ... | Captain MacPhee |
| Alastair Hunter | ... | Captain MacKechnie |
| Henry Mollison | ... | Mr. Farquharson |
| Frank Webster | ... | First Mate |
| Compton MacKenzie | ... | Captain Buncher (as Compton Mackenzie) |
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| Cyril Chamberlain | ... | Bit Part (uncredited) |
| Finlay Currie | ... | Narrator (uncredited) |
| A.E. Matthews | ... | Colonel Linsey-Woolsey (uncredited) |
| Alexander Mackendrick | ||
| Compton MacKenzie | ... | (novel) (as Compton Mackenzie) |
| Compton MacKenzie | ... | (screenplay) (as Compton Mackenzie) and |
| Angus MacPhail | ... | (screenplay) (as Angus Mac Phail) |
| Michael Balcon | ... | producer |
| Monja Danischewsky | ... | associate producer (as M. Danischewsky) |
| Ernest Irving | ... | (based on old Scottish tunes) |
| Gerald Gibbs | ... | director of photography |
| Joseph Sterling | ||
| Charles Crichton | ... | (uncredited) |
| Roy Baker | ... | second assistant editor (uncredited) |
| Robert Winter | ... | assistant editor (uncredited) |
| Margaret Harper Nelson | ... | (uncredited) (casting) |
| Jim Morahan | ||
| Barbara Barnard | ... | hairdresser supervisor (uncredited) |
| Ernest Taylor | ... | makeup supervisor (uncredited) |
| Hal Mason | ... | production supervisor |
| L.C. Rudkin | ... | unit production manager |
| Harry Kratz | ... | assistant director |
| Richmond Harding | ... | third assistant director (uncredited) |
| John Meadows | ... | second assistant director (uncredited) |
| Bert Davey | ... | draughtsman (uncredited) |
| Ernie Diamond | ... | head carpenter (uncredited) |
| Norman Dorme | ... | draughtsman (uncredited) |
| Roger Hopkin | ... | draughtsman (uncredited) |
| R. Thurgarland | ... | draughtsman (uncredited) |
| Leonard Bulkley | ... | recordist (as Leonard B. Bulkley) |
| Stephen Dalby | ... | sound supervisor |
| Michael Stoll | ... | boom operator (uncredited) |
| Geoffrey Dickinson | ... | special effects |
| Sydney Pearson | ... | special effects |
| Chic Waterson | ... | camera operator (as Chick Waterson) |
| Hal Britten | ... | camera operator: second unit (uncredited) |
| Jack Dooley | ... | still photographer (uncredited) |
| Harry Gillam | ... | director of photography: second unit (uncredited) |
| Roy Gough | ... | still photographer (uncredited) |
| George Pink | ... | Focus puller (uncredited) |
| Douglas Slocombe | ... | director of photography: second unit (uncredited) |
| Herbert Smith | ... | focus puller (uncredited) |
| Ken Westbury | ... | clapper loader (uncredited) |
| Anthony Mendleson | ... | wardrobe supervisor |
| Fred Birch | ... | wardrobe master (uncredited) |
| Vi Murray | ... | wardrobe mistress (uncredited) |
| Ernest Irving | ... | conductor |
| The Philharmonia Orchestra | ... | music played by |
| Marjorie Owens | ... | continuity |
| J. Arthur Rank | ... | presenter (as J.Arthur Rank) |
| Plot Summary | 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. Written byJörg Ausfelt |
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| Taglines | It's Light... It's Bright... It's 100 Proof!See more » |
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| Trivia | 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.See more » |
| Goofs | Had there really been whisky (or anything except air) in those wooden crates piled as high as a person on the rowboats the villagers use to loot the cargo ship, those boats would have capsized or sunk by the sheer weight of the crates.See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured inThe Ealing Comedies or Kind Hearts and Overdrafts (1970).See more » |
| Soundtracks | Brochan Lom, Tana LomSee more » |
| Crazy Credits | Opening credits prologue: By a strange coincidence the S.S. Cabinet Minister was wrecked off the Island of Todday [in the movie] two years after the S.S. Politician, with a similar cargo, was wrecked [in real life] off the Island of Eriskay. But the coincidence stops there, for our story and the characters in it are pure fiction.See more » |
| Quotes | Narrator: To the west, there is nothing. Except America. See more » |
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