The Best of Ealing Studios

A collection of five classic Ealing comedies. 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' 1949 is a period comedy set in the early 20th century. Young Louis Mazzini Dennis Price vows to take revenge on his family, the D'Ascoynes, when he learns how they disinherited his mother. Working his way into their trust, Louis begins to bump off his distant relatives all played by Alec Guinness one by one, but complications set in when Edith D'Ascoyne Valerie Hobson, the widow of his first victim, falls in love with him. In 'The Ladykillers' 1955, eccentric landlady Mrs Wilberforce Katie Johnson believes her new lodger Professor Marcus Guinness and his associates the Major Cecil Parker, Louis Herbert Lom, Harry Peter Sellers and One-Round Danny Green to be amateur musicians. They are in fact, however, the perpetrators of a bank heist, looking to whisk their ill-gotten gains out of London. All goes well until Mrs Wilberforce is persuaded by Marcus to claim his 'trunk' from the station it is only then that the criminal genius's carefully laid plans begin to go awry. In 'The Man in The White Suit' 1951, Sidney Stratton Guiness is a laboratory cleaner in a textile factory who invents a material that will neither wear out nor become dirty. Initially hailed as a great discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they realise that if it never wears out, people will only ever have to purchase one suit of clothing. In 'Passport to Pimlico' 1949, an unexploded bomb goes off in P
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