Dr Keith M Johnston

At the end of my last blog, I claimed this film was one of Ealing’s contributions to the ‘science fiction’ genre, a claim I also make (al...

Eighteen films later, we’re back playing with trains in The Titfield Thunderbolt . The very image of this film has come to stand from som...

Director Pat Jackson made this, his only Ealing film, as the studio faced uncertain economic and creative straits, having sold their Eali...

A special Halloween-inspired change to the advertised programme: my look at The Feminine Touch (1956) will appear later this week, but I t...

Not a film about Will Hay haunting a branch of Marks and Spencer’s (which could have been amusing) but a more standard comedy-thriller ...

While watching this Will Hay-starring comedy, I was reminded of the different release strategies that companies take when releasing British...

This Dublin-set story of fate/kismet contains several elements that could form a strong comedy but it is almost fatally let down by casti...