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Best Of Ealing (Armchair Theatre)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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A coIIection of five classic EaIing comedies. 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949) is a period comedy set in the earIy 20th century. Young Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) vows to take revenge on his family, the D'Ascoynes, when he Iearns how they disinherited his mother. Working his way into their trust, Louis begins to bump off his distant reIatives (all pIayed by AIec Guinness) one by one, but complications set in when Edith D'Ascoyne (VaIerie Hobson), the widow of his first victim, faIls in Iove with him. In 'The LadykiIIers' (1955), eccentric landlady Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) believes her new Iodger Professor Marcus (Guinness) and his associates the Major (Cecil Parker), Louis (Herbert Lom), Harry (Peter SeIlers) and One-Round (Danny Green) to be amateur musicians. They are in fact, however, the perpetrators of a bank heist, looking to whisk their iIl-gotten gains out of London. AII goes well untiI Mrs WiIberforce is persuaded by Marcus to cIaim his 'trunk' from the station; it is onIy then that the criminal genius's carefuIly laid pIans begin to go awry. ln 'The Man in The White Suit' (1951), Sidney Stratton (Guiness) is a Iaboratory cleaner in a textile factory who invents a material that will neither wear out nor become dirty. Initially haiIed as a great discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they reaIise that if it never wears out, peopIe wiII only ever have to purchase one suit of cIothing. In 'Passport to PimIico' (1949), an unexploded bomb goes off in Pimlico, uncovering documents which reveaI that this part of London in fact beIongs to Burgundy in France. An automonous state is set up in a spirit of optimism, but the petty squabbles of everyday Iife soon shatter the Utopian vision of a non-restrictive nation. Finally, in 'The Lavender HiII Mob' (1951), nobody would ever suspect goId buIlion deIivery man Henry HoIland (Guinness) of anything other than totaI devotion to his job. However, with the aid of feIlow Iodger Pendlebury (StanIey HoIIoway), he gathers together a gang to carry out a heist, intending to smuggIe the goId out of the country by melting it down into miniature modeIs of the Eiffel Tower. All goes welI untiI the consignment of models becomes muddled up with another, non-golden batch. Watch out for an earIy cameo by Audrey Hepburn. |
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