1949
Directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick
To balance tragically ending story from the last Film Boudoir, we will watch a comedy film from Ealing Studios , inspired (believe it or not!)by a true story, which I will introduce before the screening!
Stacked with great scenes and fantastically subversive comedy of the anti-authority kind, “excellent ,even when it is a bit dry” British humour and , well, 50,000 cases of whisky!
… On the remote Scottish island of Todday people are seriously depressed – there is not enough whisky and life without it isn’t worth living.
One day a miracle happens. The SS Cabinet Minister, a large ship carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, is wrecked on the coastline! The locals quickly discover what the ship’s cargo is and rush to salvage as much of it as possible. Soon after, English authorities dispatch a few agents to reclaim the whiskey from the locals. However, instead of giving back the precious whisky, they decide to hide it all over the island and frustrate the agents so that they leave them alone….
The real story upon which the film is based is equally hillarious – please read the story of the ship SS Politician which sank off Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides in 1941 and the Whisky that’s still being find around the Island in late 2000′!
Scotch Whiskey Skin
(Use small bar glasses)
1 wine glass of Scotch whiskey.
1 piece of lemon peel.
Fill the tumbler one-half full with boiling water.
Recipe from 1862 book “HOW TO MIX DRINKS or THE BON-VIVAN’S COMPANION” by Jerry Thomas.
