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Films Included:
- Whisky Galore!
- Champagne Charlie
- The Maggie
- Always Rains on Sunday
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This box set, one of four from the The Ealing Studios Collection is a MUST HAVE for the collector of vintage British Films.
By todays standards the acting at times appears a little amateurish (my opinion only) but what I really like about these films is seeing the scenes of early post war life. Good story lines from most Ealing productions have turned them into classics.
Highly recommended.
By todays standards the acting at times appears a little amateurish (my opinion only) but what I really like about these films is seeing the scenes of early post war life. Good story lines from most Ealing productions have turned them into classics.
Highly recommended.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
If you get a DVD that's been well-pressed then I'd recommend this series, but CANAL+ has tried to do these on the cheap and some of the pressings are awful. If it jumps, skips, or just stalls send it back to Amazon - they've probably had so many returned they're used to it. They replaced mine.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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If you're already a fan of one of Britain's most revered treasures of the film industry and whose legacy seems as strong as ever, you will already know of Lavender Hill Mob and Kind Hearts and Coronets and such.
Moving on from these and onto ones not shown on TV leads to these 'Definitive' series boxsets. Each has one of those absolute classics, in the case of this volume 4, it's Whisky Galore.
Champagne Charlie and it Always Rains on Sunday were really popular films of their days and the latter, a foray into (then) contemporary gritty social drama. Champagne Charlie did what Hollywood did so well, the Variety Hall biopic but with East End sparkle, full of wit and larger than life characters.
Finally, The Maggie. An underrated, gentle little comedy, the sort of which Ealing are more associated with. The storyline packs quite a gentle punch on American capitalism as a tycoon gets to believe that, after cutting corners and underestimating the crew of the 'Maggie', he can buy out his mistake with dollars alone.
This is an attractively (but modest, to keep the cost down) presented little four disc set that has no duds whatsoever and many pleasures within.
Moving on from these and onto ones not shown on TV leads to these 'Definitive' series boxsets. Each has one of those absolute classics, in the case of this volume 4, it's Whisky Galore.
Champagne Charlie and it Always Rains on Sunday were really popular films of their days and the latter, a foray into (then) contemporary gritty social drama. Champagne Charlie did what Hollywood did so well, the Variety Hall biopic but with East End sparkle, full of wit and larger than life characters.
Finally, The Maggie. An underrated, gentle little comedy, the sort of which Ealing are more associated with. The storyline packs quite a gentle punch on American capitalism as a tycoon gets to believe that, after cutting corners and underestimating the crew of the 'Maggie', he can buy out his mistake with dollars alone.
This is an attractively (but modest, to keep the cost down) presented little four disc set that has no duds whatsoever and many pleasures within.
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The films you get
The films you get are:
Volume 1
Kind Hears and Coronets
Nicolas Nicklby
Passport to Pimlico
Went the Day Well? Read more
Volume 1
Kind Hears and Coronets
Nicolas Nicklby
Passport to Pimlico
Went the Day Well? Read more
Published 4 months ago by Fluclo
ealing comedies
I recently bought this as a present for an older person.
They absolutley loved it. And went out and bought another Ealing DVD
They absolutley loved it. And went out and bought another Ealing DVD
Published 6 months ago by jackie treehorn
Essential for the collection.
Anyone with an interest in our British cinema will love this collection from our greatest(?) studios. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr. D. W. Wakeling
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