Which novelist wrote The Monarch of the Glen and Whisky Galore?
Whisky Galore! (1949 film) Whisky Galore! (1949 film) Whisky Galore! is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. It was the directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick; the screenplay was by Compton MacKenzie, based on his 1947 novel "Whisky Galore". The storybased on a true eventconcerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky; the islanders find out the ship is carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, which they salvage, against the opposition of the local Customs and Excise men. Like others of the Ealing comedies,
Whisky Galore! (1949 film) first to achieve box office success. For Crowther, "the charm and distinction of this film reside in the wonderfully dry way it spins a deliciously wet tale". "Whisky Galore!" was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best British Film, alongside "Passport to Pimlico" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets", although they lost to "The Third Man" (1949). In 1958, "Rockets Galore", Mackenzie's sequel to "Whiskey Galore", was adapted and filmed as "Rockets Galore!", directed by Michael Relph. Danischewsky provided the screenplay, and several of the personnel who filmed "Whisky Galore!" also worked on "Rockets Galore!" "Whisky Galore!" had an