I just watched Whisky Galore! (Alexander Mackendrick, 1949) and rated it 6/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_Galore%21_%281949_film%29?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #WhiskyGalore #EalingStudios #EalingComedy

77 years ago:
The Captive Heart (UK)
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this ...
1946-04-29
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/82819
#TheCaptiveHeart #MichaelRedgrave #JackWarner #GordonJackson #EalingStudios #ClassicMovies

I just watched Return to Yesterday (Robert Stevenson, 1940) and rated it 7/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Yesterday?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastadon #ReturnToYesterday #RobertStevenson #CliveBrook #EalingStudios

82 years ago:
The Ghost of St. Michael's (UK)
Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery be...
1941-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/115170
#TheGhostofStMichaels #JohnLaurie #EalingStudios #ClassicFilm

69 years ago:
West of Zanzibar (UK)
Game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.
1954-03-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/157860
#WestofZanzibar #MartinBenson #EalingStudios #Film

67 years ago:
Who Done It? (UK)
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
1956-03-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/46892
#WhoDoneIt #BennyHill #BelindaLee #DavidKossoff #EalingStudios #ClassicMovies

65 years ago:
Dunkirk (UK)
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the D...
1958-03-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/17720
#Dunkirk #JohnMills #RichardAttenborough #BernardLee #EalingStudios #ClassicFilm

76 years ago:
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (UK)
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
1947-03-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/83031
#TheLifeandAdventuresofNicholasNickleby #AlbertoCavalcanti #CedricHardwicke #StanleyHolloway #EalingStudios #ClassicMovies

83 years ago:
Return to Yesterday (UK)
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
1940-03-09
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/238727
#ReturntoYesterday #RobertStevenson #CliveBrook #MayWhitty #EalingStudios #Film

70 years ago:
The Titfield Thunderbolt (UK)
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts ...
1953-03-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/24381
#TheTitfieldThunderbolt #CharlesCrichton #JohnGregson #HughGriffith #SidJames #EalingStudios #Movies

69 years ago:
The Maggie (UK)
The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of the trick, he attempts to track down the boat and...
1954-02-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/48954
#TheMaggie #GeoffreyKeen #EalingStudios #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

70 years ago:
The Cruel Sea (UK)
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike...
1953-02-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16914
#TheCruelSea #JackHawkins #DenholmElliott #StanleyBaker #EalingStudios #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

80 years ago:
Nine Men
The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they can be relieved.
1943-02-22
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/150116
#NineMen #GordonJackson #EalingStudios #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

72 years ago:
Pool of London (UK)
Jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt swirl around a sailor (Bonar Colleano) off a cargo ship in London.
1951-02-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/27917
#PoolofLondon #JamesRobertsonJustice #LesliePhillips #EalingStudios #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

79 years ago:
The Halfway House (UK)
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
1944-02-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/103863
#TheHalfwayHouse #GlynisJohns #SallyAnnHowes #EalingStudios #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

90 years ago:
Perfect Understanding (UK)
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
1933-01-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/177586
#PerfectUnderstanding #LaurenceOlivier #EalingStudios #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

The Night My Number Came Up is a 1955 Ealing Studios production and it’s one of those odd little movies that they don’t make nowadays (and more’s the pity). A kind of semi-paranormal vaguely supernatural psychological suspense aviation thriller.

It starts with a dream about a plane crash.

And it's superb.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-night-my-number-came-up-1955.html

#ealing #EalingStudios #aviationthriller #disastermovies #paranormalthriller #psychologicalthriller #MichaelRedgrave #DenholmElliott #SheilaSim

Here's a nice #postcard for a cold day: its the University of London, back in 1905 when it was based at South Kensington

The card shows the Imperial Institute, now mostly demolished. The steps shown featured in the Ealing Comedy, The Titfield Thunderbolt, in the scene where the stolen steam locomotive goes down the museum steps

#HigherEducation
#HigherEducationPostcard
#London
#EalingStudios
#TitfieldThunderbolt