Product Tag - Michael Balcon

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    Whisky Galore! (1949)

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    Whisky Galore! (1949)

    Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.

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    Train of Events (1949)

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    Train of Events (1949)

    A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

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    Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

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    Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

    Louis Mazzini’s mother belongs to the aristocratic family D’Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Therefore, she and Louis were rejected by the D’Ascoynes. Once adult, Louis decides to avenges his mother and him, by becoming the next Duke of the family. Murdering every potential successor is clearly the safest way to achieve his goal.

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    Against the Wind (1948)

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    Against the Wind (1948)

    A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.

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    It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

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    It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

    Robert Hamer’s bleak portrait of life in London’s East End.

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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)

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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)

    A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

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    Hue and Cry (1947)

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    Hue and Cry (1947)

    A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip’s wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.

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    The Overlanders (1946)

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    The Overlanders (1946)

    It’s the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a “scorched earth” policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overland half way across the continent, from Wyndham in Western Australia through the Northern Territory outback of Australia to pastures north of Brisbane, Queensland.

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    The Captive Heart (1946)

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    The Captive Heart (1946)

    A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man’s wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates’ stories are revealed episodically.

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    Dead of Night (1945)

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    Dead of Night (1945)

    Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests’ own bizarre tales.

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    Painted Boats (1945)

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    Painted Boats (1945)

    In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

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    Champagne Charlie (1944)

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    Champagne Charlie (1944)

    Ealing Comedy about rivalry between 19th Century music hall performers.

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