The mood at Ealing had evidently changed in the six years since filling your boots from a shipwreck was treated as a bit of a lark in 'Whisky Galore!' Smuggling was for many years viewed benignly in postwar Britain as a romantic game which provided a bit of an adventure for ex-servicemen disoriented by the peace. But the increasingly sordid reality that has recently embraced people smuggling is here shown in all its bleak reality.
Richard Attenborough plays the biggest skunk he'd played since 'Brighton Rock' and the general lack of glamour is underlined by Roland Culver making a very rare appearance without his toupee.
Richard Attenborough plays the biggest skunk he'd played since 'Brighton Rock' and the general lack of glamour is underlined by Roland Culver making a very rare appearance without his toupee.