![]() ![]() But this paragraph also hints at a variety of tensions elided by the film of Whisky Galore! – among others, those of religion, class, nationality ( and gender) – that threaten to disturb the smug surface of Compton MacKenzie’s book (2). Brown is, in fact, Lieutenant Boggust of the Security Intelligence Corps, sent to investigate defeatism and careless talk in the two northern Scottish islands of Todday. The above quotation features a character and subplot eliminated from the film – Mr. The popular 1947 novel Whisky Galore is in some ways inferior to its film adaptation – complacent, conformist, slackly plotted and not exactly side-splitting. ![]() He wondered whether to attribute this stupidity to Catholicism or inbreeding, and decided finally that it must be a mixture of both. At whatever house he called he was received with stares and sheepish monosyllables. Dullness, not defeatism, seemed their characteristic. Brown himself found the people of Little Todday extraordinarily stupid. ![]() Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Ealing Prod: Michael Balcon Dir: Alexander Mackendrick Scr: Compton MacKenzie, Angus MacPhail, based on the novel by Compton MacKenzie Phot: Gerald Gibbs Ed: Joseph Sterling Art Dir: Jim Morahan Mus: Ernest IrvingĬast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson Justice, Bruce Seaton, Gabrielle Blunt, Catherine Lacey, Wylie Watson ![]()
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