The reason I waffled so much is that I found the plot hilarious but had some trouble with the Scot dialects (I have trouble reading dialects of all kinds). The interspersed Gaelic didn't give me as much trouble as my edition had a glossary of Gaelic terms with how to pronounce them & their meaning. Two previous films from Ealing, Saraband for Dead Lovers and Scott of the Antarctic (both 1948) had been expensive to produce and neither had a good return at the box office. [29] At first, the authorities were not hugely concerned. The eight cases containing the money were first reported to be covered in fuel and water; then presumed swept away by the seas. At one point, the head of the salvage operation was said to have given a few away as souvenirs.

Hutchinson, Roger (2007). Polly: The True Story Behind Whisky Galore. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 978-1-8401-8071-8. Duguid, Mark (2013). "Whisky Galore! (1949)". Screenonline. British Film Institute . Retrieved 29 November 2016. Hutchinson, Roger (2007). Polly: The True Story Behind Whisky Galore. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing. p.149-150. ISBN 978-1-8401-8071-8. Scottish folk music is used for the accompaniment of the eightsome reel, which is danced at the rèiteach. According to the music historian Rosemary Coupe, the dance and music are "a vibrant expression of the Scottish spirit, second only to the ' water of life' itself". [45] Themes [ edit ]Nonetheless I cannot help looking at Brexit and the spread of the coronavirus, and thinking where this obstinacy about being a good citizen leads people. This is merely the good-natured flipside of that. There are a variety of comic characters in the script with one of them George Campbell well under his mother's thumb. So much so that when he wants to marry Catriona he dare not mention it to his mother so he sweats on the outcome of the relationship for some considerable time. Bell, Emily A. (2019). "Singing and Vocal Practices". In Sturman, Janet (ed.). The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. pp.1961–1968. doi: 10.4135/9781483317731.n650. ISBN 978-1-5063-5338-8. S2CID 239288360. The book takes its own sweet and long time to build up and gather steam (or is that Whisky fumes?) and at the beginning reads more like a collection of loosely tide storylines about quirky, Scottish Islanders than an organic whole, but then the parts starts to fit together nicely and in retrospect, I did not mind about the really slow and seemingly disjointed beginning.

Then things got considerably worse. As the winds drove SS Politician further off-course, at 7.40am a lookout glimpsed land; in desperation, the ship swung away, only to founder on the unseen sandbanks off Rosinish Point on the Isle of Eriskay. Rawlings, Roger (2017). Ripping England!: Postwar British Satire from Ealing to the Goons. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-6733-7. Whilst there are some wonderful characters in the book, such as the officious Home Guard Captain Waggett and the larger than life priest Father Macalister, there are a bewildering number of them. Many characters seem to just dip in and out of the story and it is sometimes difficult to keep up, whilst the novel itself is very dialogue heavy. However, that is no bad thing I guess as it does allow you to become immersed in the gentle intrigue, mischief and humour of the 1940s Hebrides. A poorly written book, though fun in a cosy sort of way. Wartime rationing creates a whisky drought on two neighbouring Hebridean islands during the early 1940s. The future matrimonial happiness of various parties is threatened, as is communal harmony, the morale of the local Home Guard and the authority and dignity of its commander. Fortuitously, the drought ends; some funny business ensues and all’s well that ends well. Wedding bells peal and the Catholic Church receives a new convert. By June 1941, four months after the SS Politician’s demise, branches of the Barclays and Midland Banks in Liverpool began reporting the presentation of water-damaged Jamaican 10-shilling notes.Here are some examples of the dialect (these are fairly clear as to their meaning but illustrate the way the dialects were written): The story involves the grounding of a cargo ship, the SS Cabinet Minister, off the fictional island of Little Todday whilst carrying thousands of cases of whisky to America. The poor islanders had suffered the awful fate up to that point of being denied a dram due to wartime rationing so you can imagine the reaction to something like this falling into their laps (especially with such evocative names as Highland Gold, Highland Heart and Tartan Milk!) Whisky Galore! was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best British Film, alongside Passport to Pimlico and Kind Hearts and Coronets, although they lost to The Third Man (1949). [81] Legacy [ edit ] Unhappily the oil that moves the wheels on these islands has dried up. Put more literally the action takes place during World War 2 and whisky is rationed so that it can be sent abroad for trade. A limited supply of whisky is available, but now even that has run out. When the beer runs out too, an elderly resident leaves the bar in disgust, goes home, and dies immediately. That is how important whisky is.

urn:lcp:whiskygaloreandm0000mcar:epub:cb7d5b05-44e2-4bb8-842b-e86d8b4f0924 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier whiskygaloreandm0000mcar Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2gx5xg1g7p Invoice 1652 Isbn 1860646336 Lccn 2003268610 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9741 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000074 Openlibrary_edition How much was taken by the sea, and how much fell prey to the impromptu salvage operations mounted by the locals of Eriskay, Barra, North and South Uist, and Lewis?Martin-Jones, David (2010). Scotland: Global Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-8654-4. How these two men manage to clear the way to matrimonial bliss (Sergeant-Major Odd and Peggy's pre-wedding (or reiteach) and wedding play a big part in the latter part of the book, whilst George and Catriona's nuptials must wait a little bit longer) coupled with the ending of the dram drought on the islands of Little Todday, and its larger neighbour Great Todday, form a charming and gentle tale. The authorities, however, did not share this view, not least because the whisky was destined for the United States – and so no duty had been paid on it.