Идёт Вторая мировая война. Однако, на небольшом островке на северо-западе Шотландии другая беда. Сюда не падают бомбы, не взрываются гранаты, не гибнут люди. Здесь закончилось виски! Жизнь утратила свою привлекательность, мужчины оделись в чёрное, даже дети почувствовали, что что-то не так. Но, однажды, у берегов острова потерпел крушение корабль с грузом виски на борту...
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
All but a prisoner in the exotic Malayan retreat she shares with her Chinese financier husband, Yuan Sing (Paul Lukas), British singer Sadie Merivale (Kay Walsh) begins a dangerous affair with nearby plantation owner Harold Marquess (Wallace Douglas). But when Sing discovers his wife’s betrayal, he plots to regain his honor by slowly torturing her lover to death.
