Ealing – The Biggest Little Studio in the World
There have been few famous film companies in the world whose headquarters could truthfully be described in these terms: ‘It somehow had the air of a family business, set on the village green of the...
View ArticleBlue Lamp, The (Ealing 1949 with Jack Warner, Dirk Bogarde and Jimmy Hanley)
UK / Ealing / 84 minutes / 1949 black and white Writer: T E B Clarke, from Ted Willis and Jan Read’s novel / Cinematography: Gordon Dines / Producer: Michael Relph / Director: Basil Dearden Cast: Jack...
View ArticleSan Demetrio, London (Ealing 1943 with Walter Fitzgerald, Mervyn Johns and...
UK / Ealing / 105 minutes / 1943 Writers: Robert Hamer, Charles Frend / Story: F. Tennyson Jesse / Cinematography: Ernest Palmer, Roy Kellino / Music: John Greenwood / Producer: Robert Hamer /...
View ArticleTitfield Thunderbolt, The (1953 Ealing with Stanley Holloway and John Gregson)
UK / 1953 / Ealing Writer: T E B Clarke / Director: Charles Crichton Cast: Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson, Edie Martin The village of Titfield is linked to Mallingford town...
View ArticlePink String And Sealing Wax (Ealing 1945 with Googie Withers and Mervyn Johns)
UK / Ealing / 1945 Director: Robert Hamer Writers: Diana Morgan, Robert Hamer, from the play by Roland Pertwee Cast: Googie Withers, Mervyn Johns, Gordon Jackson, Sally Ann Howes, Mary Merrall, Jean...
View ArticleDivided Heart, The (Ealing 1954 with Cornell Borchers and Yvonne Mitchell)
UK / 1954 / Ealing Dir: Charles Crichton Writers: Jack Whittingham, Richard Hughes Cast: Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Geoffrey Keen “There are enough qualities in all this to make The Divided...
View ArticleCruel Sea, The (1953 with Jack Hawkins and Donald Sinden)
UK / 1953 / Ealing Studios Writer: Eric Ambler, from the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat / Director: Charles Frend Cast: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, John Stratton, Stanley Baker, Virginia...
View ArticleLadykillers, The (1955 Ealing with Alec Guiness and Peter Sellers)
UK / 1955 / Ealing Studios Writer: William Rose / Director: Alexander Mackendrick Cast: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Katie Johnson Rose’s Academy...
View ArticleYoung Poisoner’s Handbook, The (1994 with Hugh O’Connor and Antony Sher)
UK / 1994 Director: Benjamin Ross Writers: Jeff Rawle, Benjamin Ross Cast: Hugh O’Conor, Ruth Sheen, Antony Sher, Roger Lloyd Pack, Charlotte Coleman, Paul Stacey, Samantha Edmonds, Vilma Hollingberry,...
View ArticlePassport to Pimlico (1949, Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford)
In Passport to Pimlico the detonation of a Second World War bomb in Pimlico uncovers evidence that the neighbourhood was annexed by, and remains a part of, Burgundy. It dawns on the locals that the...
View ArticleOut Of The Clouds (1954, Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty)
In Out of the Clouds there is a great chance to see how Heathrow looked in the ’50s… Michael Relph and Basil Dearden’s first class Ealing drama follows the personal tales of the pilots and passengers...
View ArticleGeorge Formby: Turned Out Nice Again, And Again And Again
You wouldn’t think so to look at him with his gormless toothy grin and lack of style but ukelele playing George Formby was a massive star of British cinema for two decades. From 1934 to 1946 Formby was...
View ArticleMan In The White Suit, The (Ealing 1951, Alec Guiness)
Sir Alec Guinness plays Sidney Stratton in delightfully wicked Ealing satire of British industry The Man In The White Suit. Stratton is a textile laboratory drone whose life is lacking excitement until...
View ArticleDead Of Night (Ealing 1945, Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns)
Dead Of Night is Ealing’s classic portmanteau horror film whose separate stories were linked by a central framing story. It was a format that was to inspire such films as Torture Garden and Dr Terror’s...
View ArticleAudrey Hepburn, the world’s most loved actress?
Has there ever been a more widely-loved actress than Audrey Hepburn? Her stunning combination of vulnerability, sophistication, elfin beauty and indomitable spirit engaged both men and women alike. She...
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Long Memory, The (1953, John Mills, John McCallum)
Director Robert Hamer, best known for his Ealing films It Always Rains on Sundays and Kind Hearts and Coronets, used vivid location filming in and around the marshes and mudflats of the Thames Estuary...
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A High Wind in Jamaica (TCF 1965, James Coburn, Anthony Quinn)
In A High Wind in Jamaica a ship transporting a clan of British school kids is plundered by a Caribbean pirate (Anthony Quinn) and his crew in the 1870s. The children stow away unknowingly on Quinn’s...
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It Always Rains On Sunday (Ealing 1947, Googie Withers, John McCallum)
One of Ealing’s real drama gems and one of the best British movies of the 1940’s. It Always Rains on Sunday helped pave the way for the kitchen sink school of realism as well as pre-date the style of...
View ArticleEaling – The Biggest Little Studio in the World
There have been few famous film companies in the world whose headquarters could truthfully be described in these terms: ‘It somehow had the air of a family business, set on the village green of the...
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Divided Heart, The (Ealing 1954 with Cornell Borchers and Yvonne Mitchell)
UK / 1954 / Ealing Dir: Charles Crichton Writers: Jack Whittingham, Richard Hughes Cast: Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Geoffrey Keen “There are enough qualities in all this to make The Divided...
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