On August 8th, British distributors Optimum Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray Alexander Mackendrick's
Whisky Galore (1949), starring Basil Radford (
Night Train to Munich), Catherine Lacey (
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes), and Bruce Seton (
The Cruel Sea).
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, which sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
Special features:
- Audio Commentary by John Ellis
- Distilling! Original TV Documentary (52 min)
- The Real Whisky Galore! With Angus Campbell (20 min)
- Hilary Mackendrick In Conversation With Anthony Slide (37 min)
- Trailer (3 min)
- Behind the scene stills gallery.