A season of films from the studio which for 25 years projected Britain and the British character to the world; and a look at the month when we first saw them.
8.0 Gaumont British News-Jtme 1949. The King opens Colonial Exhibition - Gorgeous Gussie at Wimbledon - Mine sinks cross-channel steamer.
8.10
Whisky Galore! starring
Basil Radford , Joan Greenwood with James Robertson Justice Gordon Jackson
The film that created an international reputation for the studio.
1943, and the remote Hebridean island of Todday is an island of despair. Everyone's spirits are at zero: Todday is without whisky, the water of life. Then a shipwreck brings hope ...
Written by compton MACKENZIE and ANGUS MACPHAIL. Producer MICHAEL BALCON
Director ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK
. Films: page 11