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Monday, 30 July 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 91: The Divided Heart (1954)

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‘based... on a factual story taken from the newspapers. Part of its appeal for me was that it was about the mother-child relationship... wh...
Wednesday, 25 July 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 90: Mandy (1952)

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Mandy is a film that can be defined in various ways. The DVD cover, in a departure from the normal Ealing Studios branding, sells the film...
Monday, 23 July 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 89: Young Man's Fancy (1939)

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Between 1938 and 1940, director Robert Stevenson, cinematographer Ronald Neame and scriptwriter Roland Pertwee were part of the creative ...
Thursday, 19 July 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 88: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

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Re-watching Kind Hearts and Coronets for the sake of this blog post (the film is one of the Ealing films I’ve seen several times in my life...
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Monday, 16 July 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 87: The Man in the Sky (1957)

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In the forthcoming collection Ealing Revisited (available to pre-order on Amazon here: http://tiny.cc/60qfhw ), Robert Murphy describes Th...
Tuesday, 10 July 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 86: Scott of the Antarctic (1948)

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In the numerous celebrations and commentaries around the 100 th anniversary of Scott’s expedition in 2012, few mentioned this Ealing hagio...
Friday, 6 July 2012

The Great Ealing Film Challenge 85: Convoy (1940)

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From the opening credits, which dedicate the film to the ‘Officers and Men of the Royal and Merchant Navy’ and the note that ‘many scenes...