Cinema-goers will be able to raise a glass to the remake of classic Scottish comedy Whisky Galore! when it hits cinemas within weeks.
After spending more than a decade in the planning stages, the new feature starring Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo and Gregor Fisher will finally be released on May 5.
Inspired by the real-life sinking of the SS Politician ship off the island of Eriskay in 1941, the original movie and the remake are adaptions of a 1947 novel by Compton MacKenzie
The new 98-minute movie was part-filmed in Portsoy in Aberdeenshire and local residents were invited to a casting call to make an appearance in the feature.
Directed by Gillies Mackinnon, written by Peter McDougall and produced by Iain Maclean and Alan J Wands, the remake received its premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June last year.
It is based on the original 1949 Ealing Comedy film directed by Alexander Mackendric, which starred Gordon Jackson, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson and Basil Radford.
The £5million film follows residents of the fictional island of Todday and their efforts to retrieve a cargo of 50,000 cases of whisky from the SS Cabinet Minister after she runs aground.
Last year, Eriskay residents marked the 75th anniversary of the event which was immortalised in the book and film.
On February 5, 1941, the SS Politician cargo ship sank off the tiny island on the Western Isles with 260,000 bottles of whisky on board.
The 450ft vessel, which had earlier departed from Liverpool, ran aground on a sandbank in thick fog just off Rosinish Point on the north-east corner of the island.
Islanders who looted the wreck of the US-bound ship were famously pursued by local customs officer Charles McColl in a desperate attempt to recover the whisky and punish those responsible.
Plans for a remake of the classic film were originally hatched in 2004, but the project suffered a series of set-backs and changes in personnel before getting off the ground.
Critics who have reviewed the finished movie have delivered a mixed verdict to date.