# Wohoo! Ealing comedies back in the cinema

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**Created:** [August 9, 2002, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wohoo-ealing-comedies-back-in-the-cinema/123129 "2002-08-09T11:36:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wohoo-ealing-comedies-back-in-the-cinema/123129/1 "2002-08-09T11:36:54Z")

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[Ealing comedies back in cinemas](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2179073.stm)

Passport To Pimlico  
Kind Hearts And Coronets  
Whisky Galore  
The Man In The White Suit  
The Lavender Hill Mob  
The Ladykillers

All remastered prints. The story says that they will be touring the UK but I’m sure the IFC(Irish Film Center) will show these.

Wohoo!

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**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wohoo-ealing-comedies-back-in-the-cinema/123129/2 "2002-08-09T12:03:11Z")

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I love this idea ! Just hope the public turn up. From a personal perspective, I’d also like to see ‘I’m All Right Jack’ on the list because it’s ‘important’ – a big slab in paving the way for the 60’s satire boom and a very pointed comment on social discord. And Sellers was _so_ good.  
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Meanwhile, in other news, the results of [this 10-yearly poll](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2182554.stm) were announced yesterday:

_"Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, about the life of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, is the best film ever made, according to a global critics’ poll.  
The poll of international critics and directors was carried out by the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound magazine. "_

1. Citizen Kane (Welles) 1941
2. Vertigo (Hitchcock) 1958
3. La Regle du Jeu (Renoir) 1939
4. The Godfather I and II (Coppola) 1972, 1974
5. Tokyo Story (Ozu) 1953
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 1968
7. Sunrise (Murnau) 1927
8. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 1925
9. 8 1/2 (Fellini) 1963
10. Singin’ in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) 1951

- Probably only handy as a reference for those wanting a reminder of things they want to see, but a bit of fun.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wohoo-ealing-comedies-back-in-the-cinema/123129/3 "2002-08-09T12:10:59Z")

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Excellent!

Though I have to say tastes change. I tried to watch my favourite childhood film _Kind Hearts and Coronets_ a few years ago, and man did it drag.

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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wohoo-ealing-comedies-back-in-the-cinema/123129/4 "2002-08-09T12:16:14Z")

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_I’m All Right Jack_ is one of my favorites aswell. A couple of my fathers old friends (he was a shop steward in a garage) are Peter Sellers character IRL. Sellers is brilliant as usual and Terry Tomas to boot. “I shay ole boy. Ding Dong”.

I’ve only seen 5 of that 10 :eek:

Kane is IMO worthy of the first place.

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> by jjimm  
> Though I have to say tastes change. I tried to watch my favourite childhood film Kind Hearts and Coronets a few years ago, and man did it drag.

Noooo. I only saw this a few months ago and was impressed with how it stood the passage of time. It’s still as black as black can be. Oh YMMV and all that.

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**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wohoo-ealing-comedies-back-in-the-cinema/123129/5 "2002-08-09T12:52:16Z")

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Any chance of them hitting this side of the pond?