Basil Radford

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Unpublished Story is an extremely well executed British World War II propaganda piece, and what sets it apart from other entries in this subgenre is its clever plot centered around that very topic. The film’s pace is unstoppable; the script by Patrick Kirwan and Lesley Storm based on a story by Anthony Havelock-Allan is intelligent, well-written, and unique in its approach to the subject matter; and the acting is of the usual high caliber that devotees of even the lowest-budgeted British quickies have come to expect in which the smallest roles are perfectly cast.Read More »

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.Read More »