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]
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| Author | Compton Mackenzie |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Comedy |
Publication date | 1957 |
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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]
gollark: Yes, paper bad.
gollark: I have about four A4-sized books of maths notes from this year and every additional one makes looking up information harder.
gollark: I mostly have paper notes for things because school, but they're annoying when I have to reference them because I generate a *lot* of notes and have to linear-search them.
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gollark: (I have to use it for school sometimes)
References
- Burton p.251
- 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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