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Friday, 29 June 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 83: I Believe in You (1952)

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It is hard to know how to react to I Believe in You : in one sense, this could be dismissed as reliable Ealing social problem fodder, where...
Tuesday, 26 June 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 82: Barnacle Bill (1957)

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Barnacle Bill (aka All at Sea in the U.S.) has an undeserved critical reputation as a late failure that is more concerned with the studio...
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Thursday, 21 June 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 81: Painted Boats (1945)

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Even though earlier Ealing films in this blog have featured documentary elements – the likes of The Big Blockade (1942), The Next of Kin (1...
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Monday, 18 June 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 80: Eureka Stockade (1949)

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This historical Western finishes off the coverage of Ealing’s five Australian films in this blog and, as that genre description suggests, i...
Thursday, 14 June 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 79: There Ain't No Justice

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Michael Balcon often identified this film as an early example of what he believed Ealing films to be capable of: a character study about (a...
Monday, 11 June 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 78: Let's Be Famous (1939)

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The third film produced at Ealing Studios after Michael Balcon arrived (following The Gaunt Stranger and The Ware Case in 1938), it is bot...
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Friday, 8 June 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 77: Hue & Cry (1947)

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Although Charles Barr has ‘always found the charm of this film very resistible,’ I think there remains a lot of fun and enjoyment to be fou...