 | |
| table width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 border=0
tr
td bgcolor=#FFFFFFdiv class=titlefont color=#333333More Info /font/div/td
/tr
tr
td bgcolor=#FFFFFFtable cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 border=0
tr valign=top
td style=font-size: smaller; class=title#149;/td
td style=font-size: smaller; class=titlea href=/uk/news.phpNews/a/td
/tr
tr valign=top
td style=font-size: smaller; class=title#149;/td
td style=font-size: smaller; class=titlea href=/uk/biography.phpBiography/a/td
/tr
tr valign=top
td style=font-size: smaller; class=title#149;/td
td style=font-size: smaller; class=titlea href=/uk/roles.phpRoles/a/td
/tr
tr valign=top
td style=font-size: smaller; class=title#149;/td
td style=font-size: smaller; class=titlea href=/uk/interviews.phpInterviews/a/td
/tr
tr valign=top
td style=font-size: smaller; class=title#149;/td
td style=font-size: smaller; class=titlea href=/uk/photogallery.phpPhotos/a/td
/tr
tr valign=top
td style=font-size: smaller; class=title#149;/td
td style=font-size: smaller; class=titlea href=http://rowanatkinson.org/videos/index.php?option=com_frontpageItemid=1Videos/a/td
/tr
tr valign=top
td style=font-size: smaller; class=title#149;/td
td style=font-size: smaller; class=titlea href=/uk/links.phpLinks/a/td
/tr
tr valign=top
td style=font-size: smaller; class=title#149;/td
td style=font-size: smaller; class=titlea href=/uk/contactus.phpContact Us /a/td
/tr
/table/td
/tr
/table |
|
|
| | | script type=text/javascript!--
google_ad_client = pub-7120633133907657;
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = 728x90_as;
google_ad_type = text;
google_ad_channel =5636112618;
google_color_border = FFFFFF;
google_color_bg = FFFFFF;
google_color_link = 6A8BCC;
google_color_text = 000000;
google_color_url = 626262;
//--/script
script type=text/javascript
src=http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
/scriptbrbr |
|
|
| Ealing Comedy DVD Collection - Hue and Cry/Passport to Pimlico/The Titfield Thunderbolt [1953] | ![Ealing Comedy DVD Collection - Hue and Cry/Passport to Pimlico/The Titfield Thunderbolt [1953]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CQKHACB6L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge
| Directors: Andrew Snell, Charles Crichton, Henry Cornelius
Actors: Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, George Relph, Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
Buy New: £47.50
Buy New/Used from £21.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 42753
Format: Black White, Colour, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: DVD
Running Time: 290 minutes
Number Of Items: 4
Discs: 4
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 1.2
EAN: 7321900384865
ASIN: B00008N711
Release Date: April 28, 2003
Theatrical Release Date: October 20, 1953
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
This second collection of IEaling Comedy/I, while not quite as important a reissue as the first box, is nonetheless essential viewing for all aficionados of classic English film. In IPassport to Pimlico/I a group of Londoners demonstrate, paradoxically, their Englishness by eccentrically choosing the Burgundian citizenship granted them by a rediscovered medieval charter. Similarly, in IThe Titfield Thunderbolt/I neighbours outraged by the closing of their local branch line steal an antique locomotive from the museum and run their own railway. A similar sense of taking charge of your own life fills IHue and Cry/I as a group of boys, infuriated that crooks have been using their favourite comic to send messages, summon scores of others by radio to help them track down and capture the gang. p There are shared themes here, a shared sense of the importance of eccentricity and imagination to a healthy society as well as excellent ensemble acting from casts that include Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford and Sid James. The box is filled out with a television documentary about the history of Ealing Studios. It covers its early silent days, the golden age that produced the classic comedies and such important films as IThe Cruel Sea/I, its time as a BBC studio and its possible renaissance under new management. p BOn the DVD:/B IEaling Comedy/I presents the three films and the documentary in 1.33:1 (i.e., 4:3), and has excellent mono sound that does full justice to both dialogue and scores. The extra features include introductions to the four films in the first box set by such luminaries as Terry Gilliam and Martin Scorsese as well as DVD-ROM files of the original brochures for all seven films. --IRoz Kaveney/I
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Great Collection of Ealing Comedies - Plus! September 25, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
br /This is a niced boxed set featuring 3 of Ealing's comedies:br /br /Hue and Cry (1947) - One of the early Ealing comedies set in post-war London, so there's a lot of bomb sites and rubble! A young man (Harry Fowler) is looking for a job - a weekly children's comic (The Trump) comes his way and he begins to notice that some of the comic's contents are accurate (for example he sees a car in the comic that has the same registration number as a car he spots in the street). In checking up further he and some of his chums become convinced that the comic is being used by crooks to send coded messages to each other about potential robberies. The kids seek out The Trump's author (a wonderful cameo from Alastair Sim) to check whether his original stories have been changed. The action takes off from there! This is a lovely little film, with a good cast and a clever storyline. br /br /Passport to Pimlico (1949) - Post-war London - a place of bomb sites, ration books, licensing laws and to cap it all, it's a sweltering summer. Kids playing on a bomb site accidentally set off an unexploded bomb, uncovering an ancient treasure that indicates that the area is part of Burgundy. The locals are quick to take advantage of the situation and create a ration-free state, but things start to get very complicated! A rather surreal, but inventive film which, in post-war Britain (still under rationing) would have been welcomed like a breath of fresh air. A great cast, including Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, and a young Charles Hawtrey. One of Ealing's most popular films, it drags a bit in parts. However, the story is irresistible. br /br /The Titfield Thunderbolt (1952) - This is one of my personal favourites from Ealing. The local railway line is threatened with closure (and replacement by a bus service). The village community decides to run the railway themselves, which causes the competing bus owners to engage in some underhand initiatives. This is the Britain of a bygone age, with gentle humour, steam trains, wonderful sunny British countryside and all in glorious colour! The casting is inspired, with lots of nice cameos (one of the best being Stanley Holloway as a boozy philanthropist who is encouraged to invest in the locally-run railway using the argument that he can have a licensed buffet car all day!). Good performances also from Hugh Griffith, John Gregson and Sid James. The enthusiasm of the local vicar for anything to do with steam trains is just wonderful to behold. Highly recommended! br /br /Plus a bonus feature: Forever Ealing - A 49-minute documentary looking at the history of Ealing films. Includes interviews with Martin Scorsese, John Landis, Terry Gilliam and others, plus trailers for a number of Ealing films.br /br /I highly recommend this boxed set.
Solid Collection November 29, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This set is worth it for Passport to Pimlico alone- for me the greatest film of the Ealing output. Stanley Holloway is classic and perfect, Raymond Huntley at his stuffy best, Margaret Rutherford just brilliant, and then Betty Warren as Pembertons wife with the classic "it's just because we are English that we're sticking up for our right to be Burgundian". The film can be (and has been) viewed at so many different levels- but ultimately it is total perfection. pOf the others- for me Hue and Cry and Titfield Thunderbolt aren't in the same superleague- but they are great nevertheless- and much preferable to most contemporary cinema in anycase. pI just wish they'd do more of these sets- there must be dozens of classic films (not just Ealing either!) that are aching to be released!
 Ealing second DVD collection May 16, 2003
14 out of 19 found this review helpful
This collection of DVDs which includes 'The Titfield Thunderbolt', 'Hue and Cry' and 'Passport to Pimlico' is a must for aficianados of Ealing Studio's films, but it is not in the same league as the first collection which included 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'. I had hoped that it would have included 'The Maggie', but alas it does not. Maybe that will emerge in due course. I have one complaint about this collection and that concerns 'The Titfield Thunderbolt'. The picture often shimmers and flickers in a most disconcerting way?witness the title sequence at the beginning. This is a technical transfer problem and should be corrected as it occurs on and DVD player. Without this fault, the collection would have warranted 4 stars.
|
|
|
br| script type=text/javascript!--
google_ad_client = pub-7120633133907657;
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = 728x90_as;
google_ad_type = text;
google_ad_channel =5636112618;
google_color_border = FFFFFF;
google_color_bg = FFFFFF;
google_color_link = 6A8BCC;
google_color_text = 000000;
google_color_url = 626262;
//--/script
script type=text/javascript
src=http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
/scriptbrbr |
|
|
| | |
