1947 novel by Compton Mackenzie
Whisky Galore is a different written by the Scottish creator Compton Mackenzie.[1] It was available in 1947.[2] It was suitable for the cinema under say publicly title Whisky Galore!.[3] The game park has sold several million copies and has been reprinted a sprinkling times.[4]
During the Second Faux War, the cargo vessel S.S.
Cabinet Minister is wrecked abstract a remote fictional Scottish atoll group – Great Todday beginning Little Todday – with bill thousand cases of whisky alongside. Owing to wartime rationing, significance thirsty islanders had nearly bang out of the "water beat somebody to it life" and see this considerably an unexpected godsend. They do to salvage several hundred cases before the ship sinks.
On the contrary it is not all semitransparent sailing. They must thwart rank efforts of the authorities cheerfulness confiscate the liquor, particularly crop the shape of misguided, aching Home Guard Captain Paul Waggett. A cat-and-mouse battle of common sense ensues.
Although the wreck attend to the escapades over the alcohol are at the centre tension the story, there is as well a lot of background supervision about life in the Evident Hebrides, including e.g.
culture battle between the Protestant island hark back to Great Todday and the Latin Catholic island of Little Todday. (Mackenzie based the geography match these islands on Barra tell off Eriskay respectively, but in absolute life they are both Wide islands). There are various sub-plots including those of two couples who are planning to settle your differences married.
Mackenzie's prose captures glory various accents of the protected area and also includes much ordinary Gaelic that was in be inspired by at the time. The finished includes a glossary of both the meaning and approximate intonation of the language.
The story was household on a real-life incident meander occurred in 1941 on dignity Hebridean island of Eriskay[5] as the SS Politician ran marooned with a cargo including 28,000 cases of malt whisky hoot well as other trade robustness headed for Jamaica and Pristine Orleans.[6] Official files released make wet The National Archives show delay it was also carrying graceful sum of cash.
In consummate, there were nearly 290,000 ten-shilling notes, which would be characteristic the equivalent of several jillion pounds at today's prices. Plead for all of this was larger from the wreck.[6][2]
Mackenzie wrote authority novel while resident on birth Isle of Barra at fillet house just near Barra Airport.[7] The house, called Suidheachan, Goidelic for “sitting down place”, was built in 1935 is Classification B listed.[8]
The novel followed spruce up 1943 novel by Mackenzie special allowed Keep the Home Guard Turning in the same setting.
Mackenzie was said to have home-produced the negative elements of description character Captain Paul Waggett constitution Dr Bartlett, a personal participation, as an act of individual revenge.[1]
The novel was first cut out for in 1949 as Whisky Galore!,[3] a British comedy film attain by Ealing Studios, starring Herb Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson.
It was the directorial debut of Vanquisher Mackendrick; the screenplay was spawn Compton Mackenzie, an adaptation take off his novel, and Angus MacPhail.
A remake of the 1949 film was released in 2016.[3]
A theatrical adaptation of the new-fangled, licensed by the Society model Authors (the managers of Compton Mackenzie's literary estate) and impenetrable by Paul Godfrey, was leading performed as a "bar show" at Perth Theatre in magnanimity late 1980s.
This adaptation, unfetter in the manner of put in order 1940s radio broadcast, has quaternary BBC Radio Rep actors unthinkable a studio manager creating lie the locations, characters and expansion effects as they would possess done in a live transistor broadcast. This version was besides produced by Mull Theatre notes the late 1990s, early 2000s, and 2014, touring to theatres throughout Scotland.
Another adaptation break into the novel was staged hunk the Brunton Theatre Company, Musselburgh, under the direction of River Nowosielski, in October 1989.[9]
A euphonic version of the novel, honoured Whisky Galore – A Musical!, was performed at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Scotland in 2009 and 2011.
The book was adapted by Shona McKee McNeil and the music was sedate by Ian Hammond Brown. Calligraphic Gaelic language adaptation of birth novel was adapted for honourableness stage by Iain Finlay Physiologist, titled Uisge-Beatha Gu Leòr, adoration a 2015 co-production by Clean Play A Pie and Undiluted Pint at Òran Mór, Robhanis and the National Theatre end Scotland.[10]
The novel's title gripped the name of the chief French discothèque, the Whisky à gogo, opened in Juan-les-Pins mosquito 1947 by Paul Pacini aft the book was published,[11] discipline which, in turn, was methodical in the naming of Western Hollywood's Whisky a Go Give notice to in 1958.
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