Fun bit of dry British humour. There are some dead spots and some repetitiveness but for the most part fine light entertainment.

More dated than other Ealing comedies. It's slow and very 'English' you might say. But it has a few moments of pure joy - delivered especially by the funny and quite - for their time - flirtatious female characters.

Beautifully filmed and utterly beguiling Ealing comedy with a terrific cast enhancing delightfully eccentric screenplay (Jean Cadell's hilariously stern Mrs Campbell is a stand-out). Film captures all the charm of low-key British comedy without ever seeming quaint or outdated. Great fun.

A fun little film full of very strange and wandering accents.

Marvelously detailed, fast-moving, well-played and attractively photographed comedy which firmly established the richest Ealing vein.

Another example of how most British films are as dry as dust

A highly spirited comedy (pun intended). It's a little mild at first but sweetens up around the "whiskey heist", let's call it, that occurs about halfway through. It's almost ethnographic in how nicely it describes a Scottish island culture at the time of WWII, and while it particularly focuses on the famous Celtic alcoholism, it also has more. The "fearies", as one character explains, "are very active around these parts".