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.
Genres:
Basil Radford as Captain Paul Waggett
Bruce Seton as Sergeant Odd
Gordon Jackson as George Campbell
Wylie Watson as Joseph Macroon
Morland Graham as The Biffer
John Gregson as Sammy MacCodrun
Joan Greenwood as Peggy Macroon
Gabrielle Blunt as Catriona Macroon
Catherine Lacey as Mrs. Waggett
Jean Cadell as Mrs. Campbell
James Robertson Justice as Dr. Maclaren
James Woodburn as Roderick MacRurie
Jame Anderson as Old Hector
Jameson Clark as Constable Macrae
Duncan Macrae as Angus MacCormac
Mary MacNeil as Mrs. MacCormac
Norman MacOwan as Captain MacPhee
Alastair Hunter as Captain MacKechnie
Henry Mollison as Mr. Farquharson
Frank Webster as First Mate
Compton MacKenzie as Captain Buncher
James Anderson as Old Hector
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