The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
Verdict: Unknown
> Gillies MacKinnon (Director)
> David Gilchrist (First Assistant Director)
> Alex Kaye-Besley (Second Assistant Director)
> Nigel Willoughby (Director of Photography)
> Compton MacKenzie (Novel)
> Compton MacKenzie (Original Film Writer)
> Angus MacPhail (Original Film Writer)
> Peter McDougall (Writer)