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Whisky galore from stricken ship Politician

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Tollesbury's SS Politician helped inspire Ealing comedy | Maldon and Burnham Standard

Historian Stephen Nunn looks at how a 'ghost ship' on the River Blackwater at Tollesbury came to inspire a famous Ealing comedy

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A Politician's problems led to Scotch on the rocks and Whisky Galore

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It is one of the most cherished films in the cinematic canon.
But would it have enjoyed such success if the studio bosses had stuck to their original title of Golden Treasure or Liquid Treasure?
You might have an inkling of the movie in question from its French nomenclature: Whisky-A-Go-Go.
But, after it was released to initially modest reviews alongside Kind Hearts and Coronets and Passport to Pimlico in 1949, the work’s story spread through word of mouth and it was gradually acclaimed as a classic tale of canny islanders cocking a snook at bureaucrats.

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