Whisky Galore! screens Friday, May 19th through Sunday May 21st at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts each evening at 8:00pm.
Review by Mark Longden
“Whisky Galore!” is a beloved movie from 1949, one of the Ealing comedies that define a specific moment in post-war British culture (my personal favourite is “The Ladykillers”). Based on the 1947 novel of the same name, with a script written by the novelist, it was a lot of fun; presumably, the list of “movies people loved from long ago” was running a little short of ones that hadn’t already been remade, so almost 70 years later, we come to this.
During World War 2, and for a surprisingly long time afterwards (it didn’t fully finish until the 1950s), Britain went through rationing. Families were given set amounts of various products and expected to make do, although there was a black market for certain products,...
Review by Mark Longden
“Whisky Galore!” is a beloved movie from 1949, one of the Ealing comedies that define a specific moment in post-war British culture (my personal favourite is “The Ladykillers”). Based on the 1947 novel of the same name, with a script written by the novelist, it was a lot of fun; presumably, the list of “movies people loved from long ago” was running a little short of ones that hadn’t already been remade, so almost 70 years later, we come to this.
During World War 2, and for a surprisingly long time afterwards (it didn’t fully finish until the 1950s), Britain went through rationing. Families were given set amounts of various products and expected to make do, although there was a black market for certain products,...
- 5/18/2017
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