Based of course on the much loved 1947 novel by Compton
Mckenzie, this new version of Whisky Galore starring Gregor Fisher,
Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo, Kevin Guthrie, Sean Biggerstaff, Naomi
Battrick, Ellie Kendrick and directed by Gillies MacKinnon was
always going to have to live up to many people’s fond memories of
Alexander Mackendrick’s 1949 film adaptation from the very start,
and it actually does far more than this.
Disaster has struck the islands of Great Todday and Little Todday.
The German army may have occupied nearby Norway, but the war in
Europe has barely touched these remote islands...until no