The Ealing Comedies
Sep 08, 1970The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.
Documentary
Alexander Mackendrick
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Mackendrick on Film
Jan 01, 2004Mackendrick on Film is an educational project constructed around the film teachings of legendary pedagogue Alexander Mackendrick. Taking as its starting point Mackendrick's body of written work contained in his book On Film-making: An introduction to the craft of the director, Mackendrick on Film is a structured 'illustrated lecture' that features never-before-seen footage of Mackendrick at work in the classrooms and studios of the California Institute of the Arts, new interviews with former students and colleagues, extracts from archived interviews with Mackendrick about his career as a teacher of cinema, rare photos, and a selection of his student handouts, storyboards and sketches.
Documentary
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
Jan 01, 1986This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others.
Documentary
Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
May 02, 1986Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.
Documentary
Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British cinema.
Documentary
Le Grand Chantage
Jul 04, 1957Drama
Comment réussir en amour sans se fatiguer
Jun 20, 1967
Tueurs de dames
Dec 08, 1955Comedy
L'Homme au complet blanc
Aug 07, 1951Comedy
Sammy Going South
Mar 18, 1963Adventure
Whisky à gogo
Jun 16, 1949Comedy
Cyclone à la Jamaïque
May 01, 1965Adventure
Mandy
Jul 29, 1952Drama
Maggie
Feb 25, 1954Comedy
Maggie
Feb 25, 1954Comedy
Sarabande
Oct 04, 1948Romance
Logan
Feb 28, 2017Action
Midnight Menace
May 04, 1937When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a vengeful industrialist may be trying to manipulate an international peace conference to stage a bombing attack on London.
War
Dance Hall
Jun 08, 1950Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
Drama
Robinson Charley
Jul 16, 1948No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.
Animation
Contraries
Jan 01, 1943
3h10 pour Yuma
Sep 06, 2007Abu and the Poisoned Well
Jan 01, 1943Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of the conflict Halas & Batchelor were commissioned by the British Government to make four cartoons featuring a young boy Abu and his mule. They were intended to demonstrate in simple visual terms that Britain was a stout friend and the Axis powers a pernicious evil.
Animation
Mackendrick on Film
Jan 01, 2004Mackendrick on Film is an educational project constructed around the film teachings of legendary pedagogue Alexander Mackendrick. Taking as its starting point Mackendrick's body of written work contained in his book On Film-making: An introduction to the craft of the director, Mackendrick on Film is a structured 'illustrated lecture' that features never-before-seen footage of Mackendrick at work in the classrooms and studios of the California Institute of the Arts, new interviews with former students and colleagues, extracts from archived interviews with Mackendrick about his career as a teacher of cinema, rare photos, and a selection of his student handouts, storyboards and sketches.
Documentary
South Sea Sweethearts
Jan 01, 1938
Love on the Range
Jan 01, 1939
Fanfare
Oct 04, 1958In the small Dutch village of Lagerheide, two members of the local brass band get into a fight, forcing the band to be split in two. The two hotheads and their followers are doing their utmost to sabotage each other’s attempts at becoming the band who will represent the village at the upcoming brass band competition.
Comedy
L'Homme au complet blanc
Aug 07, 1951In the small Dutch village of Lagerheide, two members of the local brass band get into a fight, forcing the band to be split in two. The two hotheads and their followers are doing their utmost to sabotage each other’s attempts at becoming the band who will represent the village at the upcoming brass band competition.
Comedy
A woman brings her son and husband to a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead for quite some time, and his wife had him stuffed and carries him everywhere with her. Complications ensue.
Comedy
Abu's Dungeon
Jan 01, 1943Animation
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
Drama
