Release Date

16 Jun, 1949

Runtime

01:22: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that 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.

Photos

×

Actors

Basil Radford

Bruce Seton

Gordon Jackson

Wylie Watson

Morland Graham

John Gregson

Joan Greenwood

Gabrielle Blunt

Catherine Lacey

Jean Cadell

James Robertson Justice

James Woodburn

Jame Anderson

Jameson Clark

Duncan Macrae

Mary MacNeil

Norman MacOwan

Alastair Hunter

Henry Mollison

Frank Webster

Compton MacKenzie

Crew

Angus MacPhail

Ernest Irving

Alexander Mackendrick

Compton MacKenzie

Michael Balcon

Compton MacKenzie

Joseph Sterling

L. C. Rudkin

Anthony Mendleson

Jim Morahan

Sydney Pearson

Gerald Gibbs

Marjorie Owens

Monja Danischewsky