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Dance Hall **** (1950, Donald Houston, Bonar Colleano, Petula Clark, Natasha Parry, Jane Hylton, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 1660

The music of Ted Heath and Geraldo and their bands helps to bring plenty of Fifties atmosphere and retro chic to director Charles Crichton’s underrated 1950 Ealing Studios episodic comedy romantic drama Dance Hall about four […]

Sep, 10

Hue and Cry ***** (1947, Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 1653

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 […]

Sep, 08

The Battle of the Sexes *** (1959, Peter Sellers, Constance Cummings, Robert Morley) Classic Movie Review 1641

  Portsmouth-born Peter Sellers relishes his delicately fake posh Edinburgh district Morningside accent and has a great time in a good part for him as Mr Martin, the mouse-like elderly accountant of an Edinburgh Scottish tweed weaving […]

Sep, 06

The Titfield Thunderbolt ***** (1953, Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson) – Classic Movie Review 1640

  English villagers take direct action when their rail line faces heartless government closure by running it themselves. Charles Crichton’s 1953 Ealing Studios comedy gem The Titfield Thunderbolt glories in the antique values of the […]

Sep, 06

The Lavender Hill Mob ***** (1951, Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass) – Classic Movie Review 121

This marvellous, splendidly quirky, constantly amusing Ealing Studios classic comedy, the only one of their famous comedies ever to win an Oscar, is deliciously realised in exuberant high style by director Charles Crichton. It was […]

Aug, 03

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