"Whisky Galore! (1949 film) Whisky Galore! is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. It was the directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick; the screenplay was by Compton MacKenzie, based on his 1947 novel ""Whisky Galore"". The storybased on a true eventconcerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky; the islanders find out the ship is carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, which they salvage, against the opposition of the local Customs and Excise men. Like others of the Ealing comedies,"
"of The Film Blog, was similarly praising, terming the film ""visually and aurally gorgeous"". Whisky Galore! (2016 film) Whisky Galore! is a 2016 British film, a remake of the 1949 Ealing Comedy of the same name. It was directed by Gillies MacKinnon and stars Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard, Sean Biggerstaff and Naomi Battrick. The film premiered at the 2016 Edinburgh Film Festival and went on general release in Scotland from 5 May 2017 and the rest of the UK, Ireland and the US from 19 May 2017. The principal film location was Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Set in the Second World"
"Whisky Galore! (2016 film) Whisky Galore! is a 2016 British film, a remake of the 1949 Ealing Comedy of the same name. It was directed by Gillies MacKinnon and stars Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard, Sean Biggerstaff and Naomi Battrick. The film premiered at the 2016 Edinburgh Film Festival and went on general release in Scotland from 5 May 2017 and the rest of the UK, Ireland and the US from 19 May 2017. The principal film location was Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Set in the Second World War when whisky rationing is in effect, Scottish islanders on the Isle of Todday,"
"influence over later Scottish-based films, including ""The Wicker Man"" (1973) and ""Local Hero"" (1983). In 2007 the film was adapted and staged at the Nottingham Playhouse. In June 2016 a remake of the film was premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Eddie Izzard played Waggett and Gregor Fisher took the role of Macroon. The film was remade in 2016, with release in the UK in early May 2017. Whisky Galore! (1949 film) Whisky Galore! is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. It was the directorial debut"
"the British Film Institute to consider ""Whisky Galore!"", along with other of the Ealing comedies, as ""conservative, but 'mildly anarchic' daydreams, fantasies"". ""Whisky Galore!"" was produced by Michael Balcon, the head of Ealing Studios; he appointed Monja Danischewsky as the associate producer. Danischewsky had been employed in the studio's advertising department, and ""Whisky Galore!"" was his first job in production. With the studio's directors all working on other products, Balcon and Danischewsky asked Ronald Neame to take the role, but he turned the offer down. A first-time director, Alexander Mackendrick, was chosen from within Ealing's workforce; he was employed as"
"""Time Out"". In the late 1970s Hutchinson moved to Skye to become a journalist on the ""West Highland Free Press"". Since 1999 he has lived on Raasay. He has also served as editor of the ""Stornoway Gazette"". As of 2017, Hutchinson has written 15 non-fiction books. ""Polly, The True Story Behind Whisky Galore"" (1990) was about the SS ""Politician"", the ship which was wrecked on the Outer Hebrides with a cargo of whisky which inspired the book and film ""Whisky Galore"". His book ""The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme"" (2003), was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Book of"
"to Slim's ""Defeat Into Victory"" and Masters' ""Road Past Mandalay."" He was married with three children. Swinson was the author of ""Scotch on the Rocks"" (1963 and 2005), which told the true story of the wartime wreck of the S. S. Politician, on which Compton Mackenzie's novel ""Whisky Galore"" (1947) - and the Ealing Comedy of the same title - were based. Arthur Swinson Arthur Horace Swinson (c.1915–1970) was a British Army officer, writer, playwright, and historian. Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, Swinson attended St Albans School. He enlisted in the Rifle Brigade in 1939 and in 1940 was commissioned"
"first to achieve box office success. For Crowther, ""the charm and distinction of this film reside in the wonderfully dry way it spins a deliciously wet tale"". ""Whisky Galore!"" was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best British Film, alongside ""Passport to Pimlico"" and ""Kind Hearts and Coronets"", although they lost to ""The Third Man"" (1949). In 1958, ""Rockets Galore"", Mackenzie's sequel to ""Whiskey Galore"", was adapted and filmed as ""Rockets Galore!"", directed by Michael Relph. Danischewsky provided the screenplay, and several of the personnel who filmed ""Whisky Galore!"" also worked on ""Rockets Galore!"" ""Whisky Galore!"" had an"
"ever to reach cinema screens the world over""; the whisky producer The Distillers Company later presented those associated with the film a bottle of whisky each, given at a dinner at the Savoy Hotel, London. ""Whisky Galore!"" was released into UK cinemas on 16 June 1949; the film was financially successful. It was released into the US in December that year, though because of restrictions on the use of the names of alcoholic drinks in titles, the film was renamed ""Tight Little Island"". In France, the film was retitled ""Whisky à gogo""; the name was later used as that of"
"they would have done in a live radio broadcast. This version was also produced by Mull Theatre in the late 1990s, early 2000s, and 2014, touring to theatres throughout Scotland. A musical version of the novel, entitled '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 composed by Ian Hammond Brown. A Gaelic language adaption of the novel was adapted for the stage by Iain Finlay MacLeod for a National Theatre of Scotland, Robhanis and A Play, A Pie and"
"Iain Maclean had initiated the project in 2004 with writer Bill Bryden attached and producers Stephen Evans, Maggie Montieth and Ed Crozier. He raised £400,000 through private investment to finance the development of the film through the company, Whisky Galore Development Ltd. After firing Bill Bryden, Peter McDougall was brought on board and wrote a script for a planned filming in the summer of 2006. The film never commenced production. Between 2006 and 2010, Stephen Evans and Ed Crozier left the project. In 2012, Iain Maclean, disheartened by the lack of production finance, had to let Whisky Galore Development slip"
"historians Anthony Aldgate and Jeffrey Richards describe ""Whisky Galore!"" as a progressive comedy because it upsets the established social order to promote the well-being of a community. Like other Ealing comedies, ""Whisky Galore!"" concerned the actions of a small insular group facing and overcoming a more powerful opponent. The film historian George Perry writes that in doing so the film examines ""dogged team spirit, the idiosyncracies of character blended and harnessed for the good of the group"". The device of pitting a small group of British against a series of changes to the ""status quo"" from an external agent leads"
"and ""Kind Hearts and Coronets"", leading to 1949 being remembered as one of the peak years of the Ealing comedies. In the US, where ""Whisky Galore!"" was renamed Tight Little Island, the film became the first from Ealing Studios to achieve box office success. It was followed by a sequel, ""Rockets Galore!"". ""Whisky Galore!"" has since been adapted for the stage, and a remake was released in 2016. The inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday in the Outer Hebrides are largely unaffected by wartime rationing, until the supply of whisky runs out in 1943. Then gloom descends on"
"novelist George Meredith; he was followed by Thomas Hardy; who was in turn succeeded by JM Barrie. Subsequent presidents included the architectural historian Sir Banister Fletcher, the Anglo-Irish writer, dramatist and poet Lord Dunsany, Compton Mackenzie – author of ""Whisky Galore"" – and Laurence Meynell. The current president is the author and ""The Independent"" columnist John Walsh. The Club holds literary lunches and dinners. It hosts three literary awards each year: the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Dolman Best Travel Book Award, and the Banister Fletcher Award for the best book on art or architecture. Authors' Club The Authors'"
"""Whisky Galore!"" has gained theatrical distribution in UK and US by Arrow and was scheduled to be released in cinemas in the UK on 5 May 2017. Kate Muir, writing in ""The Times"", gave the film four stars out of five. She praised the ""zippy farce"" and in particular, Eddie Izzard's portrayal of Captain Waggett played ""with psychotic, obsessive joy and a nod to ""Dad's Army's"" Captain Mainwaring"". Muir also said that ""fans of the original film may find little or no improvement in this remake, but for a new generation this ""Whisky Galore!"" will be a pleasure"". Toby Symonds,"
"The Glass Canoe The Glass Canoe (1976) is a novel by Australian author David Ireland. It won the Miles Franklin Award in 1976. The novel is about a man who spends his life at the pub, seeing the world through his beer glass – a glass canoe. The novel is told through the voice of Meat Man, a regular drinker at the Southern Cross hotel, who works as a groundsman at the local golf course. The book was published in a new edition in 2012 by Text Publishing; Nicolas Rothwell wrote in the introduction: The book has traction. It pulls"
"Anthony Pelissier Harry Anthony Compton Pelissier (27 July 1912 – 2 April 1988) was an English actor, screenwriter, producer and director. Pelissier was born in Barnet and came from a theatrical family. His parents were the theatre producer H. G. Pelissier (who presented ""Pelissier's Follies"") and the actress Fay Compton. His uncle was Compton MacKenzie, who wrote ""Whisky Galore"". Pelissier began acting in the 1930s. In 1935 and 1936, he was featured in Noël Coward's play cycle, ""Tonight at 8.30"", both in Britain and on Broadway. He also played in Coward's ""Set to Music"" (1939) He began writing in 1937"
"Alan Halsey Alan Halsey (born 1949) is a British poet. He managed The Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye from 1979 to 1997. Since 1997, Halsey has lived in Sheffield, working as a specialist bookseller and publishing West House Books. Alan Halsey founded West House Books in 1994 to publish contemporary poetry and poetry-related work. In recent years, he has managed it in partnership with his wife, the British poet Geraldine Monk. Alan Halsey's collection of poems include ""Five Years Out"" (1989), ""Wittgenstein's Devil"" (2000), ""Marginalien"" (2005) and ""Not Everything Remotely"" (2006). In addition, his prose works include ""The Text of Shelley's"
"Stefaan Van Laere Stefaan Van Laere (born 11 November 1963, in Wetteren) is a Belgian writer who writes and publishes in Dutch. He is the author of several books for children and adults, both fiction and non-fiction. He wrote a tango book with tango teacher Pol Van Assche of Polariteit, two children's books (""De Koffer"" and ""Sciencefiction""), six thrillers, several restaurant guides and four books about whisky. He is also chief editor of the Belgian ""Horeca Magazine"" (edition in Dutch and French). Van Laere is fascinated by single malt whisky. His third whisky book ""Whisky à la carte"", written with"
"party held in London, England in 1924 by novelist Alec Waugh. A reference to a (possibly fictitious) ""Green Swizzle"" drink dates to 1925 (see ""Other Swizzles"" below). The Rum Swizzle is also mentioned in Sinclair Lewis's 1925 novel ""Arrowsmith"", which is set in the fictional Caribbean island of St. Hubert. In 1930, the drink was referenced in a book written by Joseph Hergesheimer, which refers to the drink containing Bacardi rum and bitters, as well as a swizzle stick made of sassafras. The Rum Swizzle was also mentioned in the 1931 autobiographical novel ""Half a Loaf"", penned by Sinclair Lewis's"
"island well-known far beyond the Hebrides. It is associated with the traditional Hebridean song, the ""Eriskay Love Lilt""; with the Eriskay Pony and the Eriskay jersey (made without any seams). It is the real ""Whisky Galore!"" island: it was just off Eriskay that the SS ""Politician"" ran aground in 1941 with its famous cargo. On 2 August 1745 the privateer ""Du Teillay"" landed Bonnie Prince Charlie with his ""seven men of Moidart"" on Eriskay to start the 'Forty-Five Jacobite Rising'. An important early documentary film, ""Eriskay: A Poem of Remote Lives"", made by a German traveller, Werner Kissling, was set"
"Hannah Glasse Hannah Glasse ( Allgood; March 1708 – 1 September 1770) was an English cookery writer of the 18th century. She is remembered mainly for her bestselling cookbook ""The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy"", first published in 1747. The book was reprinted within its first year of publication, appeared in 20 editions in the 18th century, and continued to be published until 1846. Glasse was christened on 24 March 1708 at St Andrews, Holborn, London. Her father was Isaac Allgood, a landowner of Brandon and Simonburn, both in Northumberland. He married Hannah Clark, the daughter of a"
"Gene: A guide in the Mojave desert. Valkyries: The main subject of the book. A group of warrior women. Valhalla: The leader of the valkyries. The Valkyries The Valkyries (; ) is a 1992 novel by Paulo Coelho. The book is written as a third-person narrative describing how Paulo and his wife embark on a 40 day journey through the Mojave Desert. There they meet the valkyries, a group of warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles. At the beginning of the story, ""J"", Coelho's master in RAM, shows him a copy of the poem by Wilde that says"
"""Whisky Galore!"" explores the actions of a small insular group facing and overcoming a more powerful opponent. It was filmed on the island of Barra; the weather was so poor that the production over-ran its 10-week schedule by five weeks, and the film went £20,000 over budget. The initial cut of the film was considered poor by Michael Balcon, the head of the studio, so one of Ealing's directors, Charles Crichton, added additional footage and re-edited the film prior to its release. ""Whisky Galore!"" was well-received on its release. It came out in the same year as ""Passport to Pimlico"""
"It's fragments, for him, snatched scenes, glimpses that show all. The Glass Canoe The Glass Canoe (1976) is a novel by Australian author David Ireland. It won the Miles Franklin Award in 1976. The novel is about a man who spends his life at the pub, seeing the world through his beer glass – a glass canoe. The novel is told through the voice of Meat Man, a regular drinker at the Southern Cross hotel, who works as a groundsman at the local golf course. The book was published in a new edition in 2012 by Text Publishing; Nicolas Rothwell"
"Strange Wine Strange Wine is a 1978 short story collection by American writer Harlan Ellison. The book contains the following stories (as well as Ellison's own introduction for each tale): Ellison wrote ""Strange Wine"" while sitting in the window of Westwood-area science fiction bookstore, A Change of Hobbit. Stephen King considered this one of the best horror fiction books published between 1950 and 1980 in his 1981 non-fiction book about the horror genre, ""Danse Macabre"", specifically reviewing the stories ""Croatoan"", ""Hitler Painted Roses"", ""Lonely Women are the Vessels of Time"", ""Emissary from Hamelin"" and ""From A to Z, in the"
"of Horror Stories"" (Noose and Gibbet Publishing 2010) and was reprinted as a stand-alone book by Screaming Dreams in 2011 with artwork by Les Edwards. Herbert van Thal Bertie Maurice van Thal (1904–1983), known as Herbert van Thal, was a British bookseller, publisher, agent, biographer, and anthologist. Van Thal's grandfather was a distiller (King's Liqueur Whisky), and was a director of the theatre proprietors, Howard and Wyndham. Henry Irving and Harry Lauder were friends of the family. After the Second World War, he founded the short-lived publishing house of Home and van Thal, with his friends Margaret Douglas-Home and Gwylim"
"Wine Folly Wine Folly is a website founded in October 2011 in Seattle, Washington by Madeline Puckette and Justin Hammack. The company has built an educational wine blog that publishes articles, videos, and infographics to help simplify wine. Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine was published September 22, 2015. The site and its content has been noted in The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Reader's Digest, and Washington Post. In 2014, a book deal based on the blog was reached. The resulting book, WINE FOLLY by Madeline Puckette and Justin Hamamck was published by Avery. In November 2015, the book"
"Gregory Maguire Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954) is an American novelist. He is the author of """", ""Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister"", and several dozen other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are inspired by classic children's stories; ""Wicked"" transforms the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" and its 1939 film adaptation into the misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba Thropp. The blockbuster Broadway musical ""Wicked"", at its height running nine companies simultaneously around the world, was inspired by Maguire's first grown-up novel. The musical is the ninth-longest-running play currently"
"Chocolate Alphabet"". Strange Wine Strange Wine is a 1978 short story collection by American writer Harlan Ellison. The book contains the following stories (as well as Ellison's own introduction for each tale): Ellison wrote ""Strange Wine"" while sitting in the window of Westwood-area science fiction bookstore, A Change of Hobbit. Stephen King considered this one of the best horror fiction books published between 1950 and 1980 in his 1981 non-fiction book about the horror genre, ""Danse Macabre"", specifically reviewing the stories ""Croatoan"", ""Hitler Painted Roses"", ""Lonely Women are the Vessels of Time"", ""Emissary from Hamelin"" and ""From A to Z,"
"A Ramble Round the Globe A Ramble Round the Globe is an 1894 book by Thomas Dewar detailing his journey around the world publicizing Dewars Scotch Whisky. The book is at least purportedly Dewar's journal, written solely for his friends who ""wanted to know 'all about it.'"" Dewar's trip was motivated not only by a desire to market his brand, but also by medical imperatives: Dewar had been battling a persistent cold that had been growing worse, and his doctor suggested that a warmer climate could rid him of this threatening cold. The journey departed from the Speyside region of"
"island from the clan in 1838. In 1939, a tarred road finally connected Northbay with Castlebay - formerly people either walked or used the sea to ship goods to the main port. Despite being a small island, communications were before this quite bad between the north and the south. The building of the road was largely the result of a campaign by Compton Mackenzie, author of ""Whisky Galore!"" who was quite well-connected. Northbay Northbay () is a township and community in the north of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. Northbay is within the parish"
"Galore (novel) Galore, by Michael Crummey, is a novel published by Doubleday Canada in 2009 and Other Press in 2011, about the discovery of an 18th-century Jonah in a remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, Newfoundland. According to Other Press webpage, ""Galore"" concerns the following: ""When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as"