The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
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Classical in form, effortless, warm and comic.
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Cast
- Gregor FisherMacroon
- Suzy Eddie IzzardCaptain Wagget
- Naomi BattrickPeggy Macroon
- Ellie KendrickCatriona Macroon
- Sean BiggerstaffSergeant Odd
- Kevin GuthrieGeorge Campbell
- James CosmoMacalister the Minister
- Fenella WoolgarDolly Waggett
- Michael NardoneBrown
- John SessionsDoctor McLaren
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- Gillies MacKinnonDirector
- Peter McDougallWriter
- Compton MacKenzieNovel
- Nigel WilloughbyDirector of Photography
- Patrick DoyleOriginal Music Composer
- Anne SopelEditor
- Iain MacleanProducer
- Alan J. WandsProducer
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