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
Diana Morgan
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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
Went the day well?
Dec 07, 1942
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Nov 22, 1945Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).
Thriller
Fiddlers Three
Oct 01, 1944Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
Comedy
Poet's Pub
Jul 05, 1949A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.
Comedy
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
Let's Be Happy
May 07, 1957On receiving an inheritance from her grandfather, Canadian Jeannie MacLean decides to visit the family's Scottish roots. On the plane she meets businessman Stanley Smith, and romance blossoms in Edinburgh. The complications begin when Stanley breaks a date with Jeannie to woo voluptuous redhead Helene, and Jeannie is flattered by the attentions of the impoverished Lord McNairn; he's heard about her good fortune, and gallantly offers to show her the city.
Music
Ships with Wings
Nov 10, 1941Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
War
Go to Blazes
Jan 01, 1942Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.
Comedy
L'Auberge Fantôme
Feb 01, 1944Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.
Mystery
Went the day well?
Dec 07, 1942Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.
War
Hand in Hand
Feb 06, 1961Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
Drama
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
Oct 05, 1986A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.
Documentary
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
Jun 22, 1956The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
Drama
