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  • Ealing Studios Boxset 1Ealing Studios Boxset 1 | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £27.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (7.15%)   |  RRP £29.99

    Kind Hearts and Coronets (Dir. Robert Hamer 1949): Sir Alec Guinness became an international star with his extraordinary performance as eight different characters in this 1949 Ealing Studios classic. Dennis Price (I'm All Right Jack Private Progress) co-stars as Edwardian gentleman Louis Mazzini who plots to avenge his mother's death by seizing the dukedom of the aristocratic d'Ascoyne family. But to gain this inheritance Mazzini must first murder the line of eccentric relatives who stand between him and the title including General d'Ascoyne Admiral d'Ascoyne The Duke of Chalfont Lady Agatha d'Ascoyne and four more all brillantly portrayed by Guinness and leading to one of the most delicious final twists in comedy history. Passport To Pimlico (Dir. Henry Cornelius 1949): An ancient document reveals that London's Pimlico district really belongs to France. And the Pimlico community eager to abandon post-War constraints quickly establish their independence as a ration-free state with hilarious results. Nicholas Nickleby (Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti 1947): The classic Charles Dicken's tale of 'Nicholas Nickleby ' a man who is deprived of his inheritance and travels to seek his fortune with a group of gypsies. Went The Day Well? (Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti 1942): The residents of a British village during WWII welcome a platoon of soldiers only to discover that they're actually Germans!

  • I Was Monty's Double/Ice Cold In Alex/Went The Day Well [DVD]I Was Monty's Double/Ice Cold In Alex/Went The Day Well | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

    Titles Comprise: I Was Monty's Double: In World War II North Africa an actor is set the task of posing as Field Marshal Montgomery in an effort to confuse the Nazis. Based on a true story. Ice Cold In Alex: A tense engrossing adventure set in the 1942 Libyan war zone in the hot Western Desert. A British ambulance officer (John Mills) escapes the siege in Tobruk and tries desperately to get his passengers to safety in Alexandria where he dreams he will have the luxury of an 'ice cold' glass of beer. His passengers include a stranded hospital nurse a Sergeant-Major and a stray South African Officer trying to return to his unit. Despite saving the group from the Germans something is not quite right about the last passenger. As he begins to undermine the group's stamina using psychological tactics the British officer begins to suspect he might be a German spy... Went The Day Well?: On the Whitsun weekend of 1942 in the idyllic village of Bramley End German paratroopers disguised as sappers attempt to set up equipment to disrupt Britain's radar defences yet haven't counted on the indomitable spirit of the English villagers! Directed by the Italian director Alberto Cavalcanti and produced by Ealing Studios Went The Day Well? was a commercial feature based loosely upon Graham Greene's fictional short story 'The Lieutenant Died Last'.

  • The Four Just Men [DVD]The Four Just Men | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Produced by Michael Balcon for Ealing Studios on the eve of the Second World War, The Four Just Men recounts crime novelist Edgar Wallace's tale of the clandestine band of vigilantes who have united to uphold democracy, fight tyranny and protect British interests worldwide. A patriotic remake of George Ridgeway's silent of 1921 - also inspiring ITC's cult series of 1959 - this innovative thriller sees the unconventional heroes thwarting a dictator's plan to destroy the British Empire. Origin...

  • British Comedies Of The 1930s: Volume 9 [DVD]British Comedies Of The 1930s: Volume 9 | DVD | (04/04/2016) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

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  • The Skin GameThe Skin Game | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

    An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and destroy eachother. A rich family the Hillcrests are fighting against the spectacular Hornblower who sends away poor farmers to build factories on their land. When mrs. Hillcrest finds out that Chloe Hornclower was a prostitute she uses the secret to blackmail the spectacular and force him to stop his business....

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