- Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: Cameron & Hollis; 3rd Revised edition edition (1 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0906506115
- ISBN-13: 978-0906506110
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 620,459 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An account of the films produced at the most celebrated British studio. Now in its third edition, which includes a post-Thatcher view of Ealing and an account of Michael Balcon's career after he left the studio.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Charles Barr's study of Ealing Studios has become as timeless as some of the films it analyses.
The reading of Ladykillers as a paradigm of British Politics in the the post Second World War years (with Alec Guinness's band as labour and the old ladies as the tories) is crisp and incredibly to the point. Barr also had the coherence of looking back at some of his first edition's comments and review them if proven inappropriate, something that does not come easy to film historians and critics. Highly recommended.
The reading of Ladykillers as a paradigm of British Politics in the the post Second World War years (with Alec Guinness's band as labour and the old ladies as the tories) is crisp and incredibly to the point. Barr also had the coherence of looking back at some of his first edition's comments and review them if proven inappropriate, something that does not come easy to film historians and critics. Highly recommended.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Although there is of course useful material in this book, readers have to be alert to those moments when they need to leap ahead a paragraph, for Charles Barr is in the habit of detailing plots. He also has the habit, from which a critic should shy, of writing in the first person.
Rightly, he gives credit to that highly enjoyable film by Walter Forde, Cheer, Boys, Cheer (1939) as the precursor of this great series of comedy and other films. When will this film, which has disappeared from television, be made available again? Even now, some might be startled at the spanking received by Nova Pilbeam from a man into whose motor-car she later crashes. "Look what you've done to my rear!" he shouts. "Look what you did to mine," she replies.
Rightly, he gives credit to that highly enjoyable film by Walter Forde, Cheer, Boys, Cheer (1939) as the precursor of this great series of comedy and other films. When will this film, which has disappeared from television, be made available again? Even now, some might be startled at the spanking received by Nova Pilbeam from a man into whose motor-car she later crashes. "Look what you've done to my rear!" he shouts. "Look what you did to mine," she replies.
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Tight Little Studio
4 Aug 2002
Format:Paperback
This is a fascinating book. If you only know Ealing Studios for comedies such as "Kind Hearts and Coronets" "The Lavender Hill Mob" and "The Ladykillers," this book opens up the whole Ealing output from about 1939 to 1957.
Not only does Barr discuss the classic Ealing comedies, but he puts them in their context in the studio's output, and he shows how the studio's output changed over time regarding the pressures and changes that British society went through in those pivotal decades.
This book is "the rise and fall of Ealing Studios" but in an artistic, not financial, sense. It gets one to think about what movies say about "national character" yet remains enjoyable and jargon-free.
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