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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

The Rainbow Jacket ** (1954, Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Bill Owen, Edward Underdown) – Classic Movie Review 8663

Director Basil Dearden’s 1954 Ealing Studios Technicolor sports drama The Rainbow Jacket stars Bill Owen as Sam, an experienced (but not entirely straight) champion jockey, banned from the races, who shows a youngster called Georgie […]

Jun, 30

Let George Do It ***½ (1940, George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee, Coral Browne, Torin Thatcher) – Classic Movie Review 4874

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1940 British black-and-white comedy musical war film stars George Formby as George Hepplewhite, a daft ukulele playing concert-party member, who mistakes Bergen, Norway, for Blackpool, England. Having taken the wrong boat and […]

Jan, 11

Painted Boats [The Girl on the Canal] *** (1945, Jenny Laird, Bill Blewitt, Robert Griffith, May Hallatt, Madoline Thomas, Grace Arnold, Harry Fowler, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 4692

Director Charles Crichton’s warm and appealing 1945 Ealing Studios wartime drama tells the story of the adventures of two families – the Smiths and the Stoners – working on the colourfully painted canal boats on the […]

Nov, 24

Nine Men *** (1943, Jack Lambert, Gordon Jackson, Frederick Piper, Grant Sutherland, Bill Blewitt) – Classic Movie Review 4691

Writer-director Harry Watt’s 1943 realist-style World War Two war picture is minor but tense, interesting and impressive. It stars Jack Lambert as Sergeant Watson, Gordon Jackson as the Young ‘un, Frederick Piper as Banger Hill, […]

Nov, 24

Train of Events *** (1949, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Peter Finch, Irina Baronova, Susan Shaw, Patric Doonan, Joan Dowling, Laurence Payne, Mary Morris, John Gregson, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 4,593

Ealing Studios’ 1949 British portmanteau film flashes back to reveal four of the passengers’ stories as a London to Liverpool-bound train heads for a crash into a stalled petrol tanker at a level crossing. Ealing […]

Nov, 05

The Goose Steps Out ***½ (1942, Will Hay, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Ustinov, Frank Pettingell, Julien Mitchell, Barry Morse, Peter Croft) – Classic Movie Review 4554

Will  Hay’s outrageous 1942 British farce is an intriguing and endearing collision between wartime morale-boosting propaganda and slapstick comedy, made at the height of World War Two. Its idea to ‘poke fun at the hun’ […]

Oct, 28

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