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BEST OF EALING COLLECTION
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| Starring: |
Ronald Adam,
Hermione Baddeley,
Alfie Bass,
Jacques Brunius,
Kenneth Connor,
Howard Marion Crawford,
Eugene Deckers,
Patric Doonan,
Paul Dupuis,
Marjorie Fielding,
Audrey Fildes,
Harold Goodwin,
Colin Gordon,
Michael Gough,
Danny Green,
Joan Greenwood,
John Gregson,
Hugh Griffith,
Fred Griffiths,
Alec Guinness,
Joan Harben,
Charles Hawtrey,
James Hayter,
Audrey Hepburn,
Valerie Hobson,
Stanley Holloway,
Vida Hope,
Frankie Howerd,
Jane Hylton,
Sid James,
Katie Johnson,
Duncan Lamont,
Herbert Lom,
Arthur Lowe,
Miles Malleson,
Edie Martin,
Clive Morton,
Barbara Murray,
Cecil Parker,
John Penrose,
Dennis Price,
Basil Radford,
Cecil Rampage,
John Rudling,
Margaret Rutherford,
Peter Sellers,
John Slater,
Philip Stainton,
Sidney Tafler,
Ernest Thesiger,
Jack Warner,
Betty Warren,
Naunton Wayne
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£18.99 |
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£15.76 |
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| Cat No: |
OPTD1437 |
| EAN: |
5055201805737 |
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| Distributor: |
OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
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| Rel. date: |
1 June, 2009 |
| Certificate: |
U |
| Running Time: |
426 mins |
| Language: |
English |
| Description: |
A collection of five classic Ealing comedies. 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949) is a period comedy set in the early 20th century. Young Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) vows to take revenge on his family, the D'Ascoynes, when he learns how they disinherited his mother. Working his way into their trust, Louis begins to bump off his distant relatives (all played by Alec Guinness) one by one, but complications set in when Edith D'Ascoyne (Valerie Hobson), the widow of his first victim, falls in love with him. In 'The Ladykillers' (1955), eccentric landlady Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) believes her new lodger Professor Marcus (Guinness) and his associates the Major (Cecil Parker), Louis (Herbert Lom), Harry (Peter Sellers) and One-Round (Danny Green) to be amateur musicians. They are in fact, however, the perpetrators of a bank heist, looking to whisk their ill-gotten gains out of London. All goes well until Mrs Wilberforce is persuaded by Marcus to claim his 'trunk' from the station; it is only then that the criminal genius's carefully laid plans begin to go awry. In 'The Man in The White Suit' (1951), Sidney Stratton (Guiness) is a laboratory cleaner in a textile factory who invents a material that will neither wear out nor become dirty. Initially hailed as a great discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they realise that if it never wears out, people will only ever have to purchase one suit of clothing. In 'Passport to Pimlico' (1949), an unexploded bomb goes off in Pimlico, uncovering documents which reveal that this part of London in fact belongs to Burgundy in France. An automonous state is set up in a spirit of optimism, but the petty squabbles of everyday life soon shatter the Utopian vision of a non-restrictive nation. Finally, in 'The Lavender Hill Mob' (1951), nobody would ever suspect gold bullion delivery man Henry Holland (Guinness) of anything other than total devotion to his job. However, with the aid of fellow lodger Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), he gathers together a gang to carry out a heist, intending to smuggle the gold out of the country by melting it down into miniature models of the Eiffel Tower. All goes well until the consignment of models becomes muddled up with another, non-golden batch. Watch out for an early cameo by Audrey Hepburn. |
| Directors: |
Henry Cornelius,
Charles Crichton,
Robert Hamer,
Alexander MacKendrick
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| Genre: |
Comedy
Feature
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| No. of pieces |
1 |
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Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
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