Rockets Galore!

Rockets Galore!
UK release poster
Directed byMichael Relph
Written by
Based onRockets Galore
by Compton Mackenzie
Produced byBasil Dearden
Starring
CinematographyReginald Wyer
Edited byJohn D. Guthridge
Music byCedric Thorpe Davie
Production
company
Distributed byRank Organisation
Release date
  • 28 September 1958 (1958-09-28) (Glasgow)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Rockets Galore! (U.S. title: Mad Little Island) is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Michael Relph and starring Jeannie Carson, Donald Sinden and Roland Culver.[1] The sequel to Whisky Galore!, it was much less successful than its predecessor.[citation needed]

It was based on the novel of the same title by Compton Mackenzie.

In terms of the film's relationship to Whisky Galore!, Gordon Jackson, Jean Cadell and Catherine Lacey take their same roles. Ronnie Corbett appears as 'Drooby', with cameo appearances by Richard Dimbleby, Michael Foot and Robert Boothby. It was made at Pinewood Studios with sets designed by the art director Jack Maxsted.

Although not a true sequel to Whisky Galore!, many of that film's locations at Castlebay and on the island of Barra were utilised again and many of the characters returned, but often played by different performers.

  1. ^ "Rockets Galore!". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 6 August 2024.