Rockets Galore
Inhabitants of the Hebridean isle of Todday resist the British government's plan to turn their island home into a missile base.
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"The post-World War II British government wants to build an out-of-the-way rocket base on a tiny Scottish island over the objections of the inhabitants, some of whom will be evicted. Remember when an overreaching government trampling over people's liberties was the boogie-man, before it became "corporations" (with no line drawn between big businesses and small groups of private citizens who band together corporately as in "Americans United"?) By the 1980s a similar plot was hatched, more cleverly, in "Local Hero" where the Businessman was not only the Big, Ba..."
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Of the original cast of Whisky Galore! (1949), only Catherine Lacey, Jean Cadell, Duncan MaCrae and Gordon Jackson reprised their original roles.
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Inhabitants of the Hebridean isle of Todday resist the British government's plan to turn their island home into a missile base.