Ealing Comedies Poll

Between "Kind Hearts and Coronets" and "The Ladykillers" but lots of good films there

Bit of vote splitting for Lavender Hill Mob and Man in the White Suit.

It's a very hard choice, but I think it comes down to a toss up between the ones Tom highlights. I do like walkign round kings cross and seeing occasional locations from the film still relatively untouched even now.

I watch The Titfield Thunderbolt at the weekend (one of my favourite films as a child) and it feels very fresh even now, possibly due to the amount of location shooting.

Kind of odd to think of "Kind Hearts and Coronets" and "The Ladykillers" as comedies mind you

Rather dark themes for the time although not nearly as Dark as Arsenic and old lace (which I think they draw on slightly), which must be up there for one of the most sinister comedies of all time.

Dark themes for any time!

I always chortle at people who think of Alec Guinness solely as That Guy From Star Wars, when for me his most memorable role is as the guy with the smile in The Ladykillers.

Went with Ladykillers, but also sorely tempted by Kind Hearts and Lavender Hill.

Hmmm...Alec Guinness poll?

I think so.

Don't forget "The Horse's Mouth"

I think I might have to plump for "Kind Hearts" if only for:

"...and I always say that my west window has all the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the more concomitant crudities of his period."

"well, it wouldn't, would it? It's a window, durr!"

The line that always jumps out of memory at me, although not the best is:

'I shot an arrow in the air, she came to earth in Berkley Square'

Yes, that's the other one

for its clear-eyed view of capitalism, The Man in the White Suit

I've gone for the Lavendar Hill Mob (the first one).

Rats, I didn't notice the duplicate.

I remember reading that bit in 'Shepperton Babylon' about the way the BBC had plans to play Ealing comedies on an automatic loop once the nuclear bombs dropped. Very odd.

The Maggie for its shifting points of identification.

I worry that today's BBC would, nowadays, choose Last of the Summer Wine for our descent into oblivion.

Morbs OTM re MitWS but I voted for my man George Formby because he's George Formby.

xpost yeah, but other TV stations would be looping "Pimp my crib" with Paris Hilton..

As if ITV could afford secret underground broadcasting bunkers.

They'll be still running "Quiz Line" though

And Ant and Dec will be still be around, they're like the cockroach, they can survive anything

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I saw A Run for Your Money last night, wherein a couple Welsh miners win a newspaper-sponsored singing prize and head to London to collect it; zaniness ensues. The gradening columnist who is their unenthused escort is Guinness ("How I prefer vegetables to human beings"), and there's an early showy role for Hugh Griffith as a lush/harpist. Some interesting locations shooting of Fleet Street and environs in the late '40s.

*gardening columnist, judas priest