Poster for the film 'Whisky Galore!'

Film poster advertising the Ealing Studios production, 'Whisky Galore!', 1949. Designed by Tom Eckersley and printed by Graphic Reproductions Limited.

'Whisky Galore!' is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios, featuring 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 1947 novel 'Whisky Galore', and Angus MacPhail. The story—based on a true event—concerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky because of wartime rationing.

It was filmed on the island of Barra; the weather was so poor that the production over-ran its 10-week schedule by five weeks, and the film went £20,000 over budget.