listed. The novel followed a 1943 novel by Mackenzie entitled Keep the Home Guard Turning in the same setting. Mackenzie was said to have based the negative elements of the character Captain Paul Waggett on Dr Bartlett, a personal acquaintance, as an act of personal revenge. Adaptations Films The firm was first adapted in 1949 as Whisky Galore!, a British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios, starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. It was the directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick; the screenplay was by Compton Mackenzie, an adaptation of his novel, and Angus MacPhail. A remake of the 1949 film was released in 2016. Stage A theatrical adaptation of the novel, licensed by the Society of Authors (the managers of Compton Mackenzie's literary estate) and written by Paul Godfrey, was first performed as a "bar show" at Perth Theatre in the late 1980s. This adaptation, delivered in the manner of a 1940s radio broadcast, has four BBC Radio Rep actors and a studio manager creating all the locations, characters and sound effects as they would have done in a live radio broadcast. This version was also produced by Mull Theatre in the late 1990s, early 2000s, and 2014, touring to theatres throughout Scotland. A musical version of the novel, entitled Whisky Galore – A Musical!, was performed at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Scotland in 2009 and 2011. The book was adapted by Shona McKee McNeil and the music was composed by Ian Hammond Brown. A Gaelic language adaptation of the novel was adapted for the stage by Iain Finlay MacLeod, titled Uisge-Beatha Gu Leòr, for a 2015 co-production by A Play A Pie and A Pint at Òran Mór, Robhanis and the National Theatre of Scotland. Cultural references The novel's title influenced the name of the first French discothèque, the Whisky à gogo, opened later in the same year of the book's publication in Juan-les-Pins by Paul Pacini, which, in turn, was influential in the naming of West Hollywood's Whisky a Go Go in 1958. References Novels set in the Outer Hebrides Novels by Compton Mackenzie 1947 British novels British comedy novels Scottish comedy Chatto & Windus books British novels adapted into films