Comedy Crime
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.
Directed by
Alexander Mackendrick
Alastair Hunter
Captain MacKechnie
Morland Graham
The Biffer
Basil Radford
Captain Paul Waggett
Duncan Macrae
Angus MacCormac
Gordon Jackson
George Campbell
Catherine Lacey
Mrs. Waggett
Joan Greenwood
Peggy Macroon
James Robertson Justice
Dr. Maclaren
James Anderson
Old Hector
John Gregson
Sammy MacCodrun
Finlay Currie
Narrator
Bruce Seton
Sergeant Odd
Norman MacOwan
Captain MacPhee
Wylie Watson
Joseph Macroon
Cyril Chamberlain
Jean Cadell
Mrs. Campbell
A.E. Matthews
Colonel Linsey-Woolsey
Jameson Clark
Constable Macrae
Henry Mollison
Mr. Farquharson
Gabrielle Blunt
Catriona Macroon
James Woodburn
Roderick MacRurie
Mary MacNeil
Mrs. MacCormac
Frank Webster
First Mate

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