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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 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

Passport to Pimlico ***** (1949, Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis, John Slater, Jane Hylton, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 47

Stanley Holloway and Margaret Rutherford, and Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne – classic British comedy bliss! Ealing Studios turned the British nation’s post-World War Two austerity troubles with government red tape and ration books into the […]

Jul, 14

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