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Sid James triple. In 'The Big Job' (1965), a gang of hapless crooks
successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact.
Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving
their stolen loot - and discover that a police station has been
built over its hiding place. Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery, Jim Dale and
Joan Sims co-star. In 'Make Mine a Milluion' (1959), an ad-man
teams up with a make-up artist in a cunning plot to advertise Bonko
detergent on non-commercial television. Despite the trouble it
causes, the plan proves a great success and the two chaps soon set
up a pirate television station with the intention of beaming their
advertisements into other company's TV shows. Again the idea proves
successful - but just how long can these two go on avoiding their
come-uppance? 'The Lavender Hill Mob' (1951) is a classic Ealing
comedy. Nobody would ever suspect gold bullion delivery man Henry
Holland (Alec 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.
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The Bells Go Down (DVD)
Tommy Trinder, James Mason, Mervyn Johns, Phillipa Hiatt, Finlay Currie, …
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Set during the London Blitz of 1940, Tommy Trinder stars as a
kennelman who volunteers for the East End Auxiliary Fire Service.
The volunteers have to work alongside the regular firemen, who
resent the amateurs but who could also not have saved so many lives
without them. This film was made in 1943 with the help of the
National Fire Service and is now seen as a tribute to all the
professionals and volunteers who put their lives at risk saving
others.
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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