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Posts Tagged "Ealing Studios"

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For Those in Peril **** (1944, David Farrar, Ralph Michael, Robert Wyndham) – Classic Movie Review 9577

Charles Crichton directs Ealing Studios’ painstaking 1944 patriotic toast to the World War Two wartime RAF Air and Sea Rescue teams For Those in Peril, as disillusioned officer P / O Rawlings (Ralph Michael), who wanted […]

Mar, 30

I Believe in You ** (1952, Cecil Parker, Celia Johnson, Godfrey Tearle, Harry Fowler, Joan Collins, Laurence Harvey, George Relph) – Classic Movie Review 9,327

Joan Collins (as good-time girl Norma), Laurence Harvey (as spiv Jordie) and Harry Fowler (as decent young lad Hooker) play a trio of young offenders in Ealing Studios’ 1952 British drama film I Believe in […]

Jan, 31

Frieda *** (1947, David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling, Flora Robson, Albert Lieven, Gladys Henson, Patrick Holt) – Classic Movie Review 8269

Director Basil Dearden makes an honourable job of the 1947 black and white drama Frieda, a thoughtful Ealing Studios World War Two message story about an RAF pilot officer (David Farrar) who comes back to his […]

Mar, 19

Lease of Life ** (1954, Robert Donat, Kay Walsh, Adrienne Corri, Denholm Elliott, Walter Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 7944

Director Charles Frend’s 1954 Ealing Studios drama Lease of Life stars Robert Donat, who tugs at the heartstrings as William Thorne, a kindly Yorkshire vicar in the village of Hinton St John who discovers that […]

Dec, 27

His Excellency ** (1952, Eric Portman, Cecil Parker, Helen Cherry, Susan Stephen, Edward Chapman, Robin Bailey, Clive Morton, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 7752

The 1951 film comedy His Excellency is based on a London stage comedy by Dorothy Christie and Campbell Christie, in which a British socialist government sends dockers’ trade union supporter George Harrison (Eric Portman) to rule […]

Nov, 04

Cheer Boys Cheer *** (1939, Nova Pilbeam, Edmund Gwenn, Jimmy O’Dea, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Peter Coke, C V France) – Classic Movie Review 7,090

The 1939 British comedy film Cheer Boys Cheer is Ealing Studios’ last release before WW2, with its delightful players Nova Pilbeam, Edmund Gwenn, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott providing considerable cheer. Director Walter Forde’s 1939 […]

May, 24

The Loves of Joanna Godden *** (1947, Googie Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum, Derek Bond, Chips Rafferty) – Classic Movie Review 7088

Director Charles Frend’s nicely done but mild 1947 Ealing Studios romantic drama, taken from Sheila Kaye-Smith’s novel Joanna Godden, is set in England in the Edwardian period. It is Romney Marsh, between Kent and Sussex, in 1905. […]

May, 23

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