Rockets Galore (novel)

Rockets Galore is a 1957 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It is the sequel to his 1947 novel Whisky Galore, and sees the inhabitants of a remote Scottish island resist a government plan to build a missile base on their home.[1]

Rockets Galore
First edition
AuthorCompton Mackenzie
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy
PublisherChatto & Windus
Publication date
1957
Media typePrint

Film adaptation

In 1958 the story was made into a film Rockets Galore! directed by Michael Relph and starring Jeannie Carson, Donald Sinden and Roland Culver.[2]

References

  1. Burton p.251
  2. Goble p.300

Bibliography

  • Burton, Alan. Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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