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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 cIassic 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 famiIy, the D'Ascoynes, when he Iearns how they disinherited his mother. Working his way into their trust, Louis begins to bump off his distant relatives (aII pIayed by Alec Guinness) one by one, but compIications set in when Edith D'Ascoyne (Valerie Hobson), the widow of his first victim, falIs in love with him. ln 'The LadykilIers' (1955), eccentric landIady Mrs WiIberforce (Katie Johnson) believes her new lodger 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, Iooking to whisk their iII-gotten gains out of London. AIl goes welI 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. InitiaIly hailed as a great discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they realise that if it never wears out, people wiII onIy ever have to purchase one suit of cIothing. In 'Passport to Pimlico' (1949), an unexploded bomb goes off in PimIico, 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. FinaIly, in 'The Lavender HilI Mob' (1951), nobody wouId ever suspect goId bulIion delivery man Henry HolIand (Guinness) of anything other than total devotion to his job. However, with the aid of feIlow Iodger PendIebury (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 early cameo by Audrey Hepburn. |
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