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Blithe Spirit (DVD, Restored)
Joyce Carey, Jacqueline Clark, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Rex Harrison, …
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In this Noel Coward comedy, cynical writer Rex Harrison asks a
medium (Margaret Rutherford) to hold a seance in his house so he
can collect material for his latest book. No one is more surprised
than the medium when she inadvertently conjures up the ghost of
Harrison's first wife (Kay Hammond). The ghost refuses to go away,
preferring to taunt her less sophisticated replacement (Constance
Cummings).
Double bill of British comedies from the 1930s. In 'Heads - We Go!'
(1933), directed by Monty Banks, Constance Cummings stars as Betty
Smith, an ordinary woman. When she realises she is the spit of a
wealthy actress, she masquerades as her and enjoys a luxurious
holiday aboard the Tyrrell yacht with her friend Lil (Binnie
Barnes). Allan Dwan directs 'I Spy' (1934) in which Americans
actress Thelma Coldwater (Sally Eilers) and wealthy womaniser Wally
Sawyer (Ben Lyon) unite in England to prevent foreign intelligence
agents from causing harm.
Collection of ten classic films from the award-winning British
director. In 'The Sound Barrier' (1952), Ralph Richardson stars as
an aircraft manufacturer whose all-consuming passion with making
the ultimate supersonic jet kills both his son and son-in-law and
almost destroys him and the rest of his family. In 'Hobson's
Choice' (1953), Lancashire bootmaker Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles
Laughton) keeps a tight rein on his three daughters until his
eldest, Maggie (Brenda De Banzie), marries his assistant, Willie
Mossop (John Mills), and sets him up in his own bootmaking firm. To
Hobson's consternation, Willie has soon become his father-in-law's
main business rival. In 'Blithe Spirit' (1945), cynical writer,
Charles Condomine (Rex Harrison), asks a medium (Margaret
Rutherford) to hold a seance in his house so he can collect
material for his latest book. No one is more surprised than the
medium when she inadvertently conjures up the ghost of Condomine's
first wife (Kay Hammond). The ghost refuses to go away, preferring
to taunt her less sophisticated replacement (Constance Cummings).
In 'Brief Encounter' (1945), a respectable, happily married doctor
(Trevor Howard) comes to the aid of an equally upstanding housewife
(Celia Johnson) when a passing train blows cinder into her eye.
Thus begins a tentative romance, conducted in the tearooms and
railway cafe of a small English town. In 'Great Expectations'
(1946), orphan, Pip (Anthony Wager), befriends an escaped convict
before being elevated to higher circles as the companion of Miss
Havisham and her niece, Estella (Jean Simmons), with whom the boy
quickly falls in love. When the adult Pip (Mills) discovers a
mysterious benefactor has paved the way for him to become a
gentleman, he assumes Miss Havisham is responsible. In 'Oliver
Twist' (1948), Oliver (John Howard Davis) is a young orphan boy who
is expelled from the workhouse run by Mr Bumbel (Francis L.
Sullivan). After becoming an apprentice to an undertaker, Oliver
decides to run away to London, only to meet the Artful Dodger
(Anthony Newley) and fall amongst his gang of thieves, led by the
scheming Fagin (Alec Guinness). In 'Madeleine' (1949), Madeleine
(Ann Todd) is the eldest daughter in a respectable Victorian
Glasgow family. She begins an affair with Frenchman, Emile
L'Anglier (Ivan Desny), without her father's knowledge. Meanwhile,
Madeleine's father insists on her seeing various suitors. When
Madeleine becomes engaged to William Minnoch (Norman Wooland),
Emile threatens to reveal their relationship. 'The Passionate
Friends' (1944) is an episodic tale of an average working class
family in the interwar years. The story traces the melodrama caused
by illicit affairs, family bereavement, the first ripples of
women's liberation and political instability in the country during
the General Strike. It highlights the fact that these internal
wranglings are all happening in one house in an average street, and
that each average house has its own dramatic stories to tell.
Finally, 'In Which We Serve' (1942) is a World War II drama about a
destroyer, told through flashbacks and the reminiscences of the
surviving crew after their beloved ship is torpedoed.
Double bill of 1940s classics from Ealing Studios. In 'The Foreman
Went to France' (1941), after his bosses have sold three machines
for making fighter cannons to a French company, an English factory
foreman (Clifford Evans) travels to France in 1940 in order to
engineer the smuggling of the vital machinery out of the country
before the invading Germans can get their hands on it. Whilst in
France he meets two British soldiers (Tommy Trinder and Gordon
Jackson) who agree to help him as it soon becomes a race against
time. In 'Fiddlers Three' (1944), a couple of sailors (Trinder and
Sonnie Hale) are on shore leave and decide to visit Stonehenge.
Whilst there they rescue a damsel in distress (Frances Day) and all
three get struck by lightning at midnight. This transports them
back in time to ancient Rome and they find themselves slaves who
very soon are on their way to the arena and the mouth of a lion.
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