alexander mackendrick

Great Scots: ‘Whiskey Galore!’ and ‘The Maggie’

/ 11 March 2020

Two Scottish comedies from Alexander Mackendrick, Whiskey Galore! and The Maggie, were part of Ealing Studios movies meant for a depressed postwar England to "let off steam".

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There’ll Always Be An Ealing: Postwar England’s Little Studio That Could – and Did

Michael Barrett

/ 10 January 2020

The Ealing name has been revived in the new century, but film buffs will always regard its incandescent era as that period when it held up a scrappy and schizoid mirror to postwar England's depressions and aspirations.

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