Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Alex da Silva We are on a remote island off the coast of Scotland and there is a crisis. No whisky. The islanders have run out. It is war-time and supplies are scarce. Prayers are said and God comes good. A ship crashes just off the coast of the island with a cargo of 50,000 cases of whisky. Happy days. However, we have a Captain Mainwaring figure in the form of Basil Radford who is leader of the island's Home Guard and he wants to make sure there is no pilfering of the cargo. Boo. The film is a cat and mouse game between the islanders and this jobsworth insistent on misery. It's a comedy and it does have funny moments. I'm not a fan of Ealing comedies but I'm keeping on to this film as it is an exception as it has actually got some comedy in it.It's filmed on location which gives authenticity to the proceedings and thankfully, we don't get the usual Ealing comedy music - oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa, wah wah wah - soundtrack. It's based on actual events and this adds to the interest for me. You definitely root for the inhabitants over the officious do-gooder busy-body as represented by Radford. Let them have their whisky, for goodness sake. They're not bad people - they even don't allow themselves to get up to any mischief on a Sunday!Top tip - head over to remote areas of Scotland. A large gold nugget worth £50,000 has recently been found there but authorities are not saying where. You may even come across some stray whisky.

Adam Peters (55%) A super cosy little British comedy that has grown to become a national favourite mainly owing to its bags of charm and almost time capsule likened look at Britain's wartime past. For me this is more quaint than funny, but watching it is like being wrapped in a winter warming blanket. The performances are fine with the almost ever present in films from this ere Gordon Jackson, while Joan Greenwood is almost hypnotic in her memorable performance as the love interest. After the ship is plundered the movie becomes much more fun and entertaining to watch, with its two fingered salute to the rules and the people who make them. Fans of classic British comedy that haven't already seen this should without doubt track it down.

Ali Catterall On 5 February 1941, the SS Politician, en route to Jamaica, sank during bad weather off the coast of Eriskay, in the Outer Hebrides. It was carrying 250,000 bottles of whisky, which the locals gleefully looted before authorities arrived. Bottles still surface to this day, carried in by the tides to the beach. It must be a wonderful place to live.Whisky Galore!, an adaptation of the novel based on the true incident by Compton Mackenzie, uses the same premise, but - importantly - the interlopers (or "meddling colonialists"), in the shape of Basil Radford's Captain Waggett and his Home Guard, are already in place.On the Island of Todday whisky is everything - the "water of life" binding the community together. When wartime rationing spells its depletion, the locals are only too delighted to relieve the "SS Cabinet Minister" of its cargo. Confrontation between the wily Islanders battling (literally) for survival, the pompous, uncomprehending Captain (a forerunner to Dad's Army's Captain Mainwaring), and the Gestapo-like Customs and Excise men is a foregone conclusion.To Ealing head Michael Balcon's consternation, the movie was produced by a novice (Ealing's publicist Monja Danischewsky) and helmed by first-time director Alexander Mackendrick, emerging over-budget, due to (coincidentally enough) bad weather. Mackendrick, a strict Scottish Calvinist, also deliberately imposed a moralistic comeuppance-style ending.But Balcon shouldn't have worried. Scarily similar to The Wicker Man in places, this wonderful movie is a joy to watch from start to finish, with Basil Radford, in particular, in his element. A reminder, if one were needed, that classic British cinema doesn't begin and end South of the border, this one - like whisky - will bring a warm glow to your cheeks.

FarrBoot I was told that the star of this movie is Will Fyfe (Fyffe?). Are we talking about the same movie here? My Scottish husband tells me the film is very funny, remembering it from when he was young and still living in the Hamilton/Kilmarnock (western) area of Scotland after World War II. We would like to find a copy of the original which, he recalls, starred Will Fyfe. This listing shows Basil Radford in the starring role. Would this be a remake of the original, which he and his friends remember as: Tight Little Island? We would appreciate any clarification one might have on this title/actor confusion to be confident of searching for a copy of the original, wonderful movie. Thank you.