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Monday, 30 April 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 66: Out of the Clouds (1955)

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After watching Out of the Clouds , I am ready to declare that the unsung hero of the 1950s stretch of my Ealing marathon is currently Sid J...
Thursday, 26 April 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 65: The Big Blockade (1942)

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When Ealing is described as producing a strong combination of drama and documentary work during their Second World War propaganda films (co...
Monday, 23 April 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 64: Secret People (1952)

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I really wanted to like Secret People more than I did. Made within a year of The Gentle Gunman (1952), another Ealing project around terr...
Friday, 20 April 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 63: Meet Mr Lucifer (1953)

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For a studio whose reputation is so rooted in realism, Ealing enjoyed dabbling with fantasy, from dream sequences in Let George Do It (194...
Monday, 16 April 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 62: The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)

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It is tempting to claim that the most striking visual element of this film (called Four Desperate Men in U.S.), is its final one: the ‘Eal...
Friday, 13 April 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 61: The Ladykillers (1955)

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Watching this again, I couldn’t help wondering: is The Ladykillers Ealing’s most famous film? In academic circles, it is probably one of t...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 60: The Proud Valley (1940)

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The Proud Valley seems to be a film that is required to stand for a lot of different opinions, historical developments, and ideologies: pe...