[Dixielandjazz] Tight Little Island?

[Don Ingle]

ROBERT R. CALDER wrote:
> The British are generally in agreement that the film America was sold as Tight Little Island was called Whisky Galore! when they saw it. 
> I wonder which of the characters our intelligent listmate admirer of the film supposes was Alec Guinness under the make-up. Perhaps the starchy mother of Gordon Jackson?
> Given the Guinness gift for disguise etc, nobody can be blamed for supposing he was in that film.  Or perhaps he was  . . .  where can I get a dvd at this hour????  
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The film was based on the Book titled "Whisky Galore" but I saw it here 
in the States as Tight Little Island, and was one of my my favorites of 
the many fine Brit films in the fn based manner. The Doctor/Nurse series 
also very funny. The Alec Guiness  films were likewise gems.
But the French did comeup with a few, subtitles and all, that were very 
funny.Mr Hulot's Holiday was outstanding.
They came along at a time when American movies were either "epics" or 
B-schlock, with nothing much in between, so the small "art" theaters 
were the place to go when you just wanted to jave some good laughs and 
enjoy good British comedy - long before Monty Pythom hit our shores.
Don