Director Robert Hamer, best known for his Ealing films It Always Rains on Sundays and Kind Hearts and Coronets, used vivid location filming in and around...
The Blue Lamp was a seminal film from Ealing Studios that set out to show ‘fairly and realistically the work of the London police,’ as producer...
This was Tibby Clarke’s last Ealing screenplay, the central premise being not unlike his Passport to Pimlico. Here, however, it isn’t the bureaucracy of suburbia that...
‘Yet Freedom! Yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind,’ wrote Byron and his words were taken as the motto for...
Absorbing comedy-drama, Train of Events, which surveys what happens to a variety of people caught up in the crash of a train travelling from Euston to...
Here’s a chance to see how Heathrow looked in the ’50s… Michael Relph and Basil Dearden’s first class Ealing drama Out of the Clouds follows the...
Sir Alec Guinness plays Sidney Stratton in this delightfully wicked satire of British industry. Stratton is a textile laboratory drone whose life is lacking excitement until...
The detonation of a Second World War bomb in Pimlico uncovers evidence that the neighbourhood was annexed by, and remains a part of, Burgundy. It dawns...
Robert Hamer made his feature film debut as director (after uncredited work on the classic San Demetrio, London) with absorbing period crime melodrama Pink String and...
San Demetrio London is a highly regarded Ealing Second World War drama praising the never-say-die spirit of the Allied everyman. Based on a real event, this...
William Rose’s Academy Award-nominated screenplay cast Alec Guinness as Professor Marcus, the rather sinister ‘musician’ who takes lodgings with elderly widow Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson). In...
The actors and actresses at Ealing Studios may not have threatened MGM and Paramount in the glamour-and-gloss stakes, but their unforgettable portrayals of English toffs, cockneys,...
This powerful Ealing melodrama casts Googie Withers as former barmaid Rose Sandigate, married to middle-aged George (Edward Chapman), who has two teenage daughters from a previous...
Has there ever been a more widely-loved actress than Audrey Hepburn? Her stunning combination of vulnerability, sophistication, elfin beauty and indomitable spirit engaged both men and...
You wouldn’t think so to look at him with his gormless toothy grin and lack of style but ukelele playing George Formby was a massive star...