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Title: The Ealing Studio Rarities Collection - Volume 2
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 2
Release Date: 13/05/2013
Actors: Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood, John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Will Hay
Director: Carol Reed, Edmond T. Grenville, Charles Frend, Walter Forde
Audio Language: English
Runtime: 6 hours
Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)
Studio: Network
Certificate: BBFC PG
Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION


A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature, Ealing Studios made more than 150 films over a three-decade period. A cherished and significant part of British film history, only selected films from both the Ealing and Associated Talking Pictures strands have previously been made available on home-video format - with some remaining unseen since their original theatrical release.

The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection redresses this imbalance. Featuring new transfers from the best available elements, in their correct aspect ratio, this multi-volume collection showcases a range of scarce films from both Basil Dean's and Michael Balcon's tenure as studio head, making them available once more to the general public.

MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1935)
In the 1790s, a group of young midshipmen set sail for the first time - little realising they are embarking on an adventure that will see them battling pirates and smugglers.
Black and White / 73 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English

BRIEF ECSTASY (1937)
A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...
Black and White / 66 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English

THE BIG BLOCKADE (1942)
John Mills and Will Hay star in a wartime propaganda docu-drama showing the effects of the Allied blockade of Nazi Germany.
Black and White / 71 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English

THE FOUR JUST MEN (1939)
The Four Just Men unearth two vital clues which point towards a dastardly plan to bring down the whole of the British Empire!
Black and White / 81 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English





REVIEW
"Brief Ecstasy (1937), directed by Edmond T Gréville, a French film-maker at home on both sides of the Channel, is a little gem about a handsome middle-class Englishman (Hugh Williams) and the attractive student (Linden Travers) with whom he has a one-night stand in London and then meets again five years later, when she's married to a middle-aged continental scientist (Paul Lukas). It's a well-acted film of exquisite touches and subtle eroticism, imaginatively photographed by Ronald Neame, who went on to produce Brief Encounter, which in some ways Brief Ecstasy anticipates. It too was acclaimed by Greene, who praised "its adult sexuality and brilliant camera sense". --Philip French's Classic DVD - The Guardian

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