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Posts Tagged "Ealing Studios"
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Eureka Stockade [Massacre Hill] *** (1949, Chips Rafferty, Ralph Truman, Jane Barrett, Gordon Jackson, Jack Lambert, Peter Illing, Peter Finch) – Classic Movie Review 4670
Britain’s Ealing Studios went Down Under to Australia again (following its success with The Overlanders) for co-writer/ director Harry Watt’s 1949 pseudo-Western about four Victorian period Aussie gold miners, led by Peter Lalor (Chips Rafferty), grouping […]
The Black Sheep of Whitehall ***½ (1942, Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Frank Cellier, Felix Aylmer, Henry Hewitt, Thora Hird, Ronald Shiner, Joss Ambler) – Classic Movie Review 4538
Co-director Basil Dearden’s funny, fast-paced 1942 British World War Two comedy for Ealing Studios features Will Hay in his familiar and beloved joke schoolmaster guise as Professor Davis, a soppy schoolmaster teaching at a correspondence college who is […]
Pool of London ***½ (1951, Earl Cameron, Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson, Moira Lister, Max Adrian, Joan Dowling, James Robertson Justice) – Classic Movie Review 4399
Director Basil Dearden’s vintage 1951 British black and white crime thriller Pool of London stars Earl Cameron as Johnny Lambert, a basically honest Jamaican seaman who gets up to his ears in his thieving American […]
Mandy [Crash of Silence] ***** (1952, Jack Hawkins, Mandy Miller, Terence Morgan, Phyllis Calvert, Godfrey Tearle, Marjorie Fielding) – Classic Movie Review 2820
Little Mandy Miller, aged eight, touches the heart as the afflicted girl at a special school for hearing-impaired children run by headmaster Dick Searle (Jack Hawkins), in director Alexander Mackendrick’s expert and appealing 1952 emotional […]
Nicholas Nickleby *** (1947, Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Holloway, Bernard Miles, Aubrey Woods, Sally Ann Howes, Jill Balcon, Alfred Drayton) – Classic Movie Review 2718
Charles Dickens’s tale of the young 19th-century English schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby, who ends up with no source of income after his father dies and leaves his family destitute, is surprisingly flatly retold in director Alberto Cavalcanti’s […]
It Always Rains on Sunday ***** (1947, Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner, Edward Chapman, Susan Shaw, Patricia Plunkett) – Classic Movie Review 2507
Director Robert Hamer’s bleak but beautiful 1947 Ealing Studios British working-class drama is set in London’s East End. It’s not a soap opera but a work of art, a mix of early Sixties-style kitchen-sink movie and […]
The Cruel Sea ***** (1953, Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Virginia McKenna) – Classic Movie Review 1670
Director Charles Frend’s 1953 British wartime classic stars Jack Hawkins, who relishes enjoying a quintessential stiffed-lipped role as the stalwart lieutenant commander of the British corvette HMS Compass Rose, who gives the order to […]