[82 min; 1949; b/w; English]
Director: Alexander Mackendrick

With Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood

Recipient of the NBR Award for Top Foreign Films, National Board of Review, USA 1950

A warm and funny 1949 portrait of a Scottish island thrown into a panic when the wartime allotment of whiskey runs out. Conveniently, an American ship loaded with 50,000 cases of Scotch flounders just offshore, and the islanders go to the rescue. Mackendrick's direction of the ensemble cast is impeccable: no one character is allowed to dominate, yet each character is indispensable. A classic tale of gentle anti-authoritarianism.