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Six classic movies starring Margaret Lockwood. 'The Wicked Lady'
(1945) is set during the reign of King Charles II. Lockwood stars
as Lady Skelton, an aristocrat who attempts to relieve the tedium
of her day-to-day life by secretly acting as a highway robber. Lady
Skelton soon finds herself caught up in a tangled web of romance,
danger, and jealousy. In 'Love Story' (1944), Lissa (Lockwood)
discovers she only has a short time to live, so travels to Cornwall
for a final fling. While there, she falls in love with young
mineral prospector, Kit (Stewart Granger). However, the course of
true love does not run smoothly. In 'Bank Holiday' (1938), a group
of people set off on an August bank holiday, including a raucous
Cockney family, a would-be beauty queen, and two young lovers -
whose relationship starts to come apart when one has to deal with a
bereavement at the hospital where she works. In 'Give Us the Moon'
(1944), a young man, Sascha (Vic Oliver), joins a group called 'The
Elephants' whose principle is to abide by a complete disregard for
work. However chaos ensues when the group decides to help run the
hotel owned by Sascha's father. In 'Highly Dangerous' (1950), when
British Intelligence discovers that an Iron Curtain country is
developing insects as weapons, they dispatch entomologist Frances
Gray (Lockwood) to get into the country and collect specimens.
However her cover is almost immediately blown on her arrival and
her contact is murdered. Finally, in 'The Lady Vanishes' (1938),
when the elderly Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty) goes missing on a
train bound for England, her friend Iris Henderson (Lockwood) sets
out to find her. However, Iris' attempts are immediately frustrated
by her fellow passengers, who question whether Miss Froy ever even
existed. Only music scholar Gilbert Redman (Michael Redgrave) is
prepared to believe Iris, and together they set about getting to
the bottom of the mystery.
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The Best of Ealing Collection (DVD)
Joan Greenwood, John Penrose, Cecil Rampage, Jack Warner, Fred Griffiths, …
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A collection of five classic Ealing comedies. 'Kind Hearts and
Coronets' (1949) is a period comedy set in the early 20th century.
Young Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) vows to take revenge on his
family, the D'Ascoynes, when he learns how they disinherited his
mother. Working his way into their trust, Louis begins to bump off
his distant relatives (all played by Alec Guinness) one by one, but
complications set in when Edith D'Ascoyne (Valerie Hobson), the
widow of his first victim, falls in love with him. In 'The
Ladykillers' (1955), eccentric landlady Mrs Wilberforce (Katie
Johnson) believes her new lodger Professor Marcus (Guinness) and
his associates the Major (Cecil Parker), Louis (Herbert Lom), Harry
(Peter Sellers) and One-Round (Danny Green) to be amateur
musicians. They are in fact, however, the perpetrators of a bank
heist, looking to whisk their ill-gotten gains out of London. All
goes well until Mrs Wilberforce is persuaded by Marcus to claim his
'trunk' from the station; it is only then that the criminal
genius's carefully laid plans begin to go awry. In 'The Man in The
White Suit' (1951), Sidney Stratton (Guiness) is a laboratory
cleaner in a textile factory who invents a material that will
neither wear out nor become dirty. Initially hailed as a great
discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the
management when they realise that if it never wears out, people
will only ever have to purchase one suit of clothing. In 'Passport
to Pimlico' (1949), an unexploded bomb goes off in Pimlico,
uncovering documents which reveal that this part of London in fact
belongs to Burgundy in France. An automonous state is set up in a
spirit of optimism, but the petty squabbles of everyday life soon
shatter the Utopian vision of a non-restrictive nation. Finally, in
'The Lavender Hill Mob' (1951), nobody would ever suspect gold
bullion delivery man Henry Holland (Guinness) of anything other
than total devotion to his job. However, with the aid of fellow
lodger Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), he gathers together a gang to
carry out a heist, intending to smuggle the gold out of the country
by melting it down into miniature models of the Eiffel Tower. All
goes well until the consignment of models becomes muddled up with
another, non-golden batch. Watch out for an early cameo by Audrey
Hepburn.
Classic Ealing comedy about a group of villagers who, angered by
British Rail's decision to close down their local branch line, make
a bid to run the service themselves, making use of an antique
locomotive liberated from a local museum.
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Obsession (DVD)
Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne, Sally Gray; Contributions by Nat Bronsten, …
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An obsessed doctor (Robert Newton) determines to kill his wife's
younger lover, luring him into a cellar on a bomb site and then
leaving him chained up until his meticulous preparations for the
murder are complete.
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Passport to Pimlico (DVD)
Stanley Holloway, Basil Radford, Hermione Baddeley, Paul Dupuis, John Slater, …
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An unexploded bomb goes off in Pimlico, uncovering documents which
reveal that this part of London in fact belongs to Burgundy in
France. An automonous state is set up in a spirit of optimism, but
the petty squabbles of everyday life soon shatter the Utopian
vision of a non-restrictive nation. This Ealing classic earned an
Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay.
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