During WWII, the tiny Scottish island of Todday runs out of whisky. When a freighter runs aground nearby during a heavy fog with 50,000 cases of whisky, the islanders are thrilled. But when Captain Waggett demands the liquor’s return, shopkeeper Joseph Macroon and his daughters lead a rebellion.

Alexander Mackendrick first took to the director’s chair at Ealing Studios with this weather-beaten wonder, an ebullient hymn to disobedience and dipsomaniacal exuberance. Mischievously subversive, Whisky Galore! is one of cinema’s great valentines to the sauce: warm of heart and rich in spirit.