Whisky Galore!

1949 film by Alexander Mackendrick

Movie Film Q1455926

Facts

21 properties

Instance of: film
Director: Alexander Mackendrick^[1]
Genre: comedy film^[4]
Publication date: June 16, 1949, December 25, 1949^[24]^[25]
Screenwriter: Compton Mackenzie^[2]
Producer: Michael Balcon^[14]
Duration: +82^[30]
Cast member: Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson Justice, John Gregson, Catherine Lacey, Jean Cadell, Wylie Watson^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]
Color: color, black-and-white^[21]^[22]
Composer: Ernest Irving^[3]
Country of origin: United Kingdom^[23]
Director of photography: Gerald Gibbs^[16]
Distributed by: General Film Distributors, Netflix^[26]^[27]
Distribution format: video on demand^[18]
ICAA rating: general audiences^[32]
Kijkwijzer rating: AL^[31]
Narrative location: Scotland^[28]
Original language of film or TV show: English^[17]
Production company: Ealing Studios^[15]
Review score: 8.5/10, 96%^[19]^[20]
Title: Whisky Galore!^[29]

🏷️ Also known as

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🔖 Identifiers · 58

VIAF cluster ID: 297018172
GND ID: 4716986-2
ACMI ID: works/85197
AllMovie title ID: v113809
Allcinema film ID: 405898
AlloCiné film ID: 370
Apple TV movie ID: umc.cmc.2e5df6ix1iw5on8vga85wqgfb
BBC programme ID: b00ml4yv
BFI National Archive work ID: 150053389
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 16462115q
Cine.gr film ID (archived): 712854
Cinema Context ID: F019563

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Ciné-Ressources film ID: 46203
DNF film ID: 7584
Douban film ID: 1295847
Dvdcompare.net film ID: 18846, 18847
EIDR content ID: 10.5240/D59F-1A5A-D051-A074-AC82-I
ElFilm film ID: 41964
Elonet movie ID: 188179
FilmAffinity film ID: 349096
FilmVandaag ID: film/23032
Filmová databáze film ID: 93212
Filmportal ID: b84a2e51c1944d459d96d888ba5ad0e8
Filmweb.pl film ID: 164898
Freebase ID: /m/0283djt
Garance item ID: 9062684
ICAA film catalogue ID: 101115
IMCDB work ID: 42040
IMDb ID: tt0042040
ITunes movie ID: 1499743639, 515205984
J9U entity ID: 987007381980005171
Kinobox film ID: 185251
Kinopoisk film ID: 183312
LUMIERE film ID: 38573
LdiF ID: 25535
Letterboxd film ID: whisky-galore
MUBI film numeric ID: 16729
MYmovies audiovisual work ID: 28131
MovieLens movie ID: 42548
MovieMeter film ID: 15883
Netflix ID: 70026391
NientePopCorn movie ID: whisky-galore
OFDb film ID: 88539
OMDb film ID: 56755
PORT film ID: 172610
Plex media key: 5d77683f2ec6b5001f6bd98d
Rotten Tomatoes ID: m/whisky_galore
Schnittberichte.com title ID: 13366
SensCritique work ID: 390697
Swedish Film Database ID: 14405
TCM Movie Database film ID (archived): 93314
TMDB movie ID: 16665
TV Guide show ID (former scheme): 120614
TheTVDB movie ID: 14256
Trakt.tv ID: movies/whisky-galore-1949
Trakt.tv film ID: 10239
Yle Areena item ID: 1-1901222
ČSFD film ID: 85349

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🔗 Connections

Cast member 9

Gordon Jackson, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice, Jean Cadell, Basil Radford, John Gregson, Catherine Lacey, Wylie Watson +1 more

Color 1

black-and-white

Country of origin 1

United Kingdom

Director 1

Alexander Mackendrick

Distributed by 1

Netflix

Distribution format 1

video on demand

Genre 1

comedy film

Instance of 1

film

Narrative location 1

Scotland

Original language of film or TV show 1

English

Producer 1

Michael Balcon

Production company 1

Ealing Studios

Screenwriter 1

Compton Mackenzie

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Direct Wikidata claims

[1] ↑ Whisky Galore! — director (P57): Alexander Mackendrick. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Whisky Galore! — screenwriter (P58): Compton Mackenzie. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Whisky Galore! — composer (P86): Ernest Irving. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Whisky Galore! — genre (P136): comedy film. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Whisky Galore! — cast member (P161): Basil Radford. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Whisky Galore! — cast member (P161): Bruce Seton. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Whisky Galore! — cast member (P161): Joan Greenwood. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Whisky Galore! — cast member (P161): Gordon Jackson. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Whisky Galore! — cast member (P161): James Robertson Justice. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Whisky Galore! — cast member (P161): John Gregson. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Whisky Galore! — cast member (P161): Catherine Lacey. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Whisky Galore! — cast member (P161): Jean Cadell. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Whisky Galore! — cast member (P161): Wylie Watson. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Whisky Galore! — producer (P162): Michael Balcon. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Whisky Galore! — production company (P272): Ealing Studios. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Whisky Galore! — director of photography (P344): Gerald Gibbs. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Whisky Galore! — original language of film or TV show (P364): English. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Whisky Galore! — distribution format (P437): video on demand. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Whisky Galore! — review score (P444): 8.5/10. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2021-10-07. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Whisky Galore! — review score (P444): 96%. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Whisky Galore! — color (P462): color. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Whisky Galore! — color (P462): black-and-white. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Whisky Galore! — country of origin (P495): United Kingdom. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Whisky Galore! — publication date (P577): June 16, 1949. IMDb. Retrieved 2024-04-27. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Whisky Galore! — publication date (P577): December 25, 1949. IMDb. Retrieved 2024-04-27. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ Whisky Galore! — distributed by (P750): General Film Distributors. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ Whisky Galore! — distributed by (P750): Netflix. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ Whisky Galore! — narrative location (P840): Scotland. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ Whisky Galore! — title (P1476): Whisky Galore!. wikidata.org.
[30] ↑ Whisky Galore! — duration (P2047): 82 minutes. wikidata.org.
[31] ↑ Whisky Galore! — Kijkwijzer rating (P2684): AL. kijkwijzer.nl. Retrieved 2025-07-11. kijkwijzer.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[32] ↑ Whisky Galore! — ICAA rating (P3306): general audiences. mecd.gob.es. mecd.gob.es. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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Screenwriter → Compton Mackenzie

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Original language of film or TV show → English

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