What's your fave Ealing comedy ?

[bmgm3]

For me? The Ladykillers wins it everytime.

[alexkp]

Love The Ladykillers (but not the recent Tom Hanks remake...)

Also Kind Hearts and Coronets.

[redyellowgreen]

The proposed tramway to run along the Uxbridge road. The traffic chaos will be a bloody comedy.

[eccles]

kind hearts and coronets for me, and its on next week as well!

[lord summerisle]

whisky galore or passport to pimlico are my 2 faves

[andy mac]

bmgm3 said:

For me? The Ladykillers wins it everytime.

Ladykillers was brilliant. Guiness was fantastic! hanks was lame!

[james_j]

Yes Ladykillers.

[coach]

School for Scoundrels

[FourWheelDrift]

coach said:

School for Scoundrels

Good film but not an "Ealing Comedy". It was made by the Associated British Picture Corporation at Elstree Studios.

If you liked the original you perhaps don't want to see this one - www.imdb.com/title/tt0462519/


>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Sunday 16th October 11:18

[eccles]

coach said:

School for Scoundrels

good choice!

[WildCat]

I cannot decide - I loved the "Ladykillers" It was pure genius of black comedy und Alec Guinness was just superb.

Und there was also "Lavender Hill Mob" "Kind Hearts und Coronets" "Whisky Galore", "Man in the White Suit" und "Passport to Pimlico"

I just cannot decide which as I have all on video und can watch all over und over....

[Size Nine Elm]

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[c c]

Love them all.
Especially The Ladykillers and The Lavender Hill Mob.

[sjp63]

Can you get these on DVD?????

[2 Smokin Barrels]

All eels are born in Mexico

[mocap]

Been lurking on this site for months but have to come out of the closet on this one: does no-one else rate the Titfield Thunderbolt?

[Ferg]

mocap said:

Been lurking on this site for months but have to come out of the closet on this one: does no-one else rate the Titfield Thunderbolt?

Yep. I'd vote for that.

[FourWheelDrift]

sjp63 said:

Can you get these on DVD?????

Yes on 2 DVDs

DVD 1 - The Ladykillers/Kind Hearts and Coronets/The Lavender Hill Mob/The Man in the White Suit.

DVD 2 - Hue and Cry/Passport to Pimlico/The Titfield Thunderbolt

Try online places like Amazon if you can't find them in the shops.

[bmgm3]

Hmmm, seems there's quite a few Ealing fans on PH.
I was coming home from London a while back and thought I'd drop in on the location of the house for the Ladykillers. I was gutted to find that the street was demolished years ago and lots of nasty flats fill the area.

[muley]

I love them all. Probably because they remind me of the England I grew up in and because the are bl**dy funny, without being coarse in any way.

>> Edited by muley on Monday 17th October 08:40