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Auction History Result 2z553 WHISKY GALORE English 1sh '49 classic Ealing comedy, Scotsmen recover sunken alcohol, rare! Date Sold 12/8/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded English One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 40" [69 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Whisky Galore! (released in the U.S. as "Tight Little Island"), the classic 1949 Alexander Mackendrick English Ealing Studios alcohol sunken ship World War II comedy ("It's Light... It's Bright... It's 100 proof"; "You'll grow tight with delight... on this spree of glee!"; "The funniest picture that ever crossed the Big Drink!"; "from the novel by Compton Mackenzie"; amazingly, this was based on a true story!; in 1941, during World War II, a ship carrying 250,000 bottles of whiskey sank off the coast of Scotland, and the locals tried to "liberate" as much of the whiskey as possible, but a Home Guard captain, an Englishman, wants to "do the right thing" and return the whiskey!) starring Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Bruce Seton, James Robertson Justice, Gordon Jackson, and Catherine Lacey NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this English one-sheet, which is a "country of origin" poster for this English movie, is almost never offered for sale. We have never auctioned it before! Note that all but 28 of the folded one-sheets in this Part I of eMoviePoster.com's December Major Auction were consigned to us by legendary French dealer/collector Dominique Besson. Dominique Besson started collecting movie posters in 1981, and became a dealer in French and European posters in 1994, and has remained as a top dealer ever since! But in addition, 30 years ago, Dominique began collecting U.S. one-sheets, first those with Saul Bass art, and then adding Alfred Hitchcock posters, then Humphrey Bogart, and he finally ended up collecting in an amazing total of 47 different categories, purchasing the posters from all over the world! Now the time has come to sell this wonderful collection, and Dominique has chosen eMoviePoster.com to do so, through our auctions! As noted above, all but 28 of the folded one-sheets in this Part I come from this more remarkable collection (the 28 that do not were consigned to us by other collectors, and are clearly marked). This is not all of the Dominique Besson collection we are auctioning. In addition, there are approximately 200 more folded one-sheets that will be in Part IV of this special auction (ones from the 1970s to present), and there are approximately 100 unfolded one-sheets that will be in Part III (including many great ones). This is a very rare opportunity to purchase folded one-sheets (all of which have had no professional restoration) from one of the greatest one-sheet collections assembled! Note that this one-sheet is from the category that Dominique Besson collected on that he labeled "British Cinema". Condition: very good to fine. The poster has two evenly spaced vertical folds instead of the regular one, and there is extremely tiny paper loss at three crossfolds. There are tiny bits of paper loss in the right end of the bottom border. Otherwise, the poster is in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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