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The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)
Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted “non-hero” Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colors of each man comes to the surface
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The Scapegoat (1959)
An Englishman (Alec Guinness) in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
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Nowhere to Go (1958)
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who what’s to know where he’s hid his loot.
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The Ladykillers (1955)
A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two-room apartment in an old house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots. The group’s mastermind, Professor Marcus, tells her a cover story that they are members of an amateur string quintet and would like to use the rooms to hone their musical skills. In reality, they’re plotting to rob an armored bank van and plan to use Mrs. Wilberforce’s naiveté and her Victorian sensibilities to their advantage.
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Lease of Life (1954)
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
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Mandy (1952)
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine (Phylis Calvert), Mandy’s mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf. A heart-rending adaptation of Hilda Lewi’s novel The Day is Ours, from acclaimed director Alexander Mackendrick, Mandy is an Ealing Studios classic.
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The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
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Pool of London (1951)
Jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt swirl around a sailor (Bonar Colleano) off a cargo ship in London.
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The Magnet (1950)
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
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Cage of Gold (1950)
A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan makes her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father can’t offer him financial support. Two years later she – having been told that Glennan is dead – has married Kearn and borne him a son. But then Glennan suddenly reappears and begins to blackmail her.
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Passport to Pimlico (1949)
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
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