'Whisky Galore!' is one of the slightest of the Ealing comedies, a short tale of canny Scottish Highlanders running rings around pompous officialdom in order to get their hands of a cargo of illicit spirit. There are some laughs, the best at the expense of the local puritans, but it's a minor tale, and the concluding joke feels like something tacked on in the edit. Better to watch 'Kind Hearts and Coronets', released in the same year, a film of far greater cinematic inventiveness.
Review of Whisky Galore!
