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The Quatermass Xperiment is notable as Hammer’s first venture into horror movies, and the first X-certificate movie from a British company. Director Val Guest’s 1955 first spin-off from Nigel Kneale’s BBC TV serials is a […]
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 […]
Director Basil Dearden’s touching and amusing 1946 British drama is one of the first and finest films to portray life in a British prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. His film for Ealing Studios is also notable […]
Director Charles Crichton’s 1947 Hue and Cry is notable and historically important as the first of the Ealing comedies, leading the way for Britain’s Ealing Studios classics of the late Forties and Fifties. But Crichton’s splendid comedy adventure […]
Director Basil Dearden’s 1949 Ealing Studios film classic was incredibly popular in the UK in 1950, seen by 13,300,000 just in Britain that year. It started a whole new kind of realist cinema in the […]
The 1951 seasonal delight Scrooge [A Christmas Carol] is the simply best movie version of the Charles Dickens classic story A Christmas Carol. Alastair Sim gives a bravura performance as the old miserly skinflint Ebenezer […]
Ealing Studios’ 1955 black comedy crime film delight The Ladykillers is a deliciously funny film throughout, with Alec Guinness leading a cast to die for. Bafta-winning writer William Rose dreamed the entire film. Packed with […]
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