Rockets Galore! (1957)

The small but resourceful Scots island of Todday, introduced in the 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore!, made a return visit to movie screens in 1958’s Rockets Galore–released in the U.S. as Mad Little Island. In the first film, the good people of Todday faced up to the appalling dilemma of a whisky shortage. Now we’re in the space age, and Todday has been targeted as the location for a rocket-launching site. Banding together as before, the islanders do their best to sabotage the project under the unsuspecting noses of the blinkered British military.

Starring: Jean Carson, Donald Sinden, Roland Culver, Catherine Lacey, Noel Purcell

Colour, 94 minutes, 1957