Ealing Comedies- S/D

Kind Hearts... is the best of the bunch, but The Man in the White Suit has Guinness' most underrated performance.

I guess it should be mentioned on this thread that the term "go-go" as in "go-go dancing" comes from a Parisian club called the Whisky à Go-Go (like the later, similarly named LA club) which is the French translation of Whisky Galore.

My favorite of the ones with Guinness was The Man in the White Suit, one of the best comedies about capitalism.

otm ... very timely, too

Passport To Pimlico might be my fave, and a terrific thematic watch during this uncharacteristically hot London Summer.

Is there a good book on Ealing?

There's a couple I would recommend - Charles Barr's Ealing Studios (first published in 1977, twice updated) is the standard critical work. The BFI's more recent Ealing Revisited (2012) is an excellent critical anthology that concentrates on less familiar parts of the studio's output (it also has an extremely useful filmography that is more complete than anything on the web).

Oh, and Michael Newton's BFI monograph on Kind Hearts and Coronets is good too, especially on the film's queer subtext.

And Ealing NON-comedies! Pink String and Sealing Wax is a riproaring Victorian Brighton murder tale. Googie Withers a treat as always.

I guess The Man in the White Suit was Ealing's only science fiction film? Although I can hardly say I've seen most of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ealing_Studios_films
so maybe there's more.

hue and cry is a neat lil kids detective/gangster film - makes good use of bombed out london

I didn’t realise that passport to pimlico, whiskey galore and kind hearts and coronets all came out within months of each other in 1949. I want to see the other three films that came out that year and see if they are any good. Train of events looks like it might be interesting.

Had a rewatch of Kind Hearts, new disc via KL. If anything, the multi-performances of Guinness (duly amazing) have overshadowed the other sterling elements: the script, Dennis Price and Joan Greenwood, etc.

Dennis Price is awesome in it.

"I always say my west window has all the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period."

one of 40 lines tied for first in it

I watched the very beginning last night since it was leaving Criterion then couldn’t stay awake to watch it properly, but agree with you two.

HI DERE