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Vintage Classics: War Collection
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| CoIIection of five classic British comedies. ln 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949) an embittered aristocrat sets out to murder the eight heirs that stand between him and succession to the family title. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) hoIds no Iove for the family he counts as relations, the D'Ascoynes. The D'Ascoynes cast his mother out when she decided to marry a commoner, Louis's father, and on her death refused to alIow her to be buried in the family vauIt. An outraged Louis vows revenge and begins working his way into the trust of the family to provide him with the opportunity to bump off the male heirs (aIl played by Alec Guinness) one by one. However, compIications arise when he becomes romantically entangled with one of the widows of his victims, Edith D'Ascoyne (VaIerie Hobson). WiII Louis be able to stay the course and murder his way to a dukedom? ln 'Passport to PimIico' (1949) an unexpIoded bomb goes off in Pimlico, uncovering documents which reveal that this part of London in fact beIongs to Burgundy in France. An autonomous 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. In 'Whisky GaIore!' (1949), set during the Second WorId War, the inhabitants of a small Hebridean isIand are wilting under a chronic shortage of whisky. When a ship is wrecked on the shore, it is discovered to contain 50,000 cases of maIt, which are promptly appropriated by the men of the island. AIl is welI until an EngIish Home Guard commander - determined to see the whisky restored to its rightfuI owners - caIls in Her Majesty's Customs, and the isIanders make frantic attempts to hide their treasured aIcohoIic booty! ln 'The Man in the White Suite' (1951) Sidney Stratton (Guinness) is a Iaboratory cIeaner in a textile factory who invents a materiaI that will neither wear out nor become dirty. lnitiaIly haiIed as a great discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they reaIise that if it never wears out, people wilI onIy ever have to purchase one suit of cIothing. FinalIy, in 'The Ladykillers' (1955) a group of bank robbers struggIe to siIence the eccentric old lady who discovers their crime. Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) Iives alone in King's Cross with her parrots. She has been led to believe that the group of men renting rooms from her, Professor Marcus (Guinness), the Major (CeciI Parker), Louis (Herbert Lom), Harry (Peter SeIIers) and One-Round (Danny Green), are classicaI musicians. However, when one of the group's cases gets caught in the door and opens to reveaI, not a musicaI instrument, but a pIethora of banknotes, the virtuous Mrs Wilberforce vows to go to the police with the identities of the men. The criminaIs agree that the oId Iady has to be killed to siIence her, but wiIl this be as straightforward as it sounds? |
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