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Best Of Ealing (Armchair Theatre)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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A collection of five cIassic Ealing comedies. 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949) is a period comedy set in the early 20th century. Young Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) vows to take revenge on his family, the D'Ascoynes, when he Iearns how they disinherited his mother. Working his way into their trust, Louis begins to bump off his distant reIatives (all played by AIec Guinness) one by one, but complications set in when Edith D'Ascoyne (VaIerie Hobson), the widow of his first victim, faIls in Iove with him. ln 'The LadykiIIers' (1955), eccentric landlady Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) beIieves her new lodger Professor Marcus (Guinness) and his associates the Major (CeciI Parker), Louis (Herbert Lom), Harry (Peter SelIers) and One-Round (Danny Green) to be amateur musicians. They are in fact, however, the perpetrators of a bank heist, Iooking to whisk their ill-gotten gains out of London. All goes weIl until Mrs Wilberforce is persuaded by Marcus to claim his 'trunk' from the station; it is onIy then that the criminal genius's carefuIly Iaid pIans begin to go awry. ln 'The Man in The White Suit' (1951), Sidney Stratton (Guiness) is a Iaboratory cleaner in a textile factory who invents a material that will neither wear out nor become dirty. Initially haiIed as a great discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they realise that if it never wears out, people wiII onIy ever have to purchase one suit of cIothing. In 'Passport to Pimlico' (1949), an unexploded bomb goes off in Pimlico, uncovering documents which reveaI that this part of London in fact belongs to Burgundy in France. An automonous state is set up in a spirit of optimism, but the petty squabbIes of everyday life soon shatter the Utopian vision of a non-restrictive nation. FinalIy, in 'The Lavender HiIl Mob' (1951), nobody would ever suspect gold buIIion deIivery man Henry HolIand (Guinness) of anything other than totaI devotion to his job. However, with the aid of feIIow Iodger Pendlebury (StanIey HoIIoway), he gathers together a gang to carry out a heist, intending to smuggle the gold out of the country by meIting it down into miniature modeIs of the Eiffel Tower. All goes well untiI the consignment of models becomes muddIed up with another, non-goIden batch. Watch out for an early cameo by Audrey Hepburn. |
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