Mad Little Island (1957)
The small but resourceful Scots island of Todday, introduced in the 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore!, made a return visit to movie screens in 1958's Rockets Galore--released in the U.S. as Mad Little Island. In the first film, the good people of Todday faced up to the appalling dilemma of a whisky shortage. Now we're in the space age, and Todday has been targeted as the location for a rocket-launching site. Banding together as before, the islanders do their best to sabotage the project under the unsuspecting noses of the blinkered British military. Mad Little Island was better received in America than it was in England, where it was perceived as an uninspired rewarming of yesterday's haggis. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jean Carson, Donald Sinden, (more)
- Director(s):
- Michael Relph
Synopsis of Mad Little Island
The small but resourceful Scots island of Todday, introduced in the 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore!, made a return visit to movie screens in 1958's Rockets Galore--released in the U.S. as Mad Little Island. In the first film, the good people of Todday faced up to the appalling dilemma of a whisky shortage. Now we're in the space age, and Todday has been targeted as the location for a rocket-launching site. Banding together as before, the islanders do their best to sabotage the project under the unsuspecting noses of the blinkered British military. Mad Little Island was better received in America than it was in England, where it was perceived as an uninspired rewarming of yesterday's haggis. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Mad Little Island
- Jean Carson - Janet MacLeod
- Roland Culver - Capt. Waggett
- Noel Purcell - Father James McAllister
- Duncan MacRae - Duncan Ban
- Gordon Jackson - George Campbell
- Carl Jaffe - Dr. Emile Hamburger
- Jameson Clark - Constable Macrae
- Nell Ballantyne - Kirsty
- Arthur Howard - Meeching
- Gabrielle Blunt - Catriona
- Richard Dimbleby
- Donald Sinden - Hugh Mander
- Catherine Lacey - Mrs. Waggett
- Ian Hunter - Air Commodore Watchorn
- Jean Cadell - Mrs. Campbell
- Alex Mackenzie - Joseph McLeod
- Nicholas Phipps - Andrew Wishart
- James Copeland - Kenny MacLeod
- Reginald Beckwith - Mumford
- John Laurie - Capt. MacKechnie
- Daniel Farson
- Director(s):
- Michael Relph
- Writer(s):
- Monja Danischewsky
- Producer(s):
- Basil Dearden
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