 Brian McFarlane, writing in the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", states that although it was not an aim of releasing the three films together, together they "established the brand name of 'Ealing comedy'"; Duguid writes that the three films "forever linked 'Ealing' and 'comedy' in the public imagination".The film historians Duguid, Lee Freeman, Keith Johnston and Melanie Williams consider 1949 was one of two "pinnacle" years for Ealing, the other being 1951, when "The Man in the White Suit" and "The Lavender Hill Mob" were both released.In 2009 "Whisky Galore!"