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Also on release this month: This is My Street The Passionate Stranger The Bailiffs Dreaming The Flying Squad Elstree Calling Drake of Loyalties Death is a Woman King’s Rhapsody The Comedy Man Mister Ten Per Cent All The Way Up Dead Men Are Dangerous Murder in Soho Hide and Seek Legendary crooner stars with George Ian Hendry, June Ritchie, , Annette Andre Baker, Kenneth Cope and Thora Hird in this 1957 and Mike Pratt feature among an outstanding cast drama directed by . The first of four films in this mid-sixties realist drama from noted director produced by Wilcox’s wife Anna Neagle and starring . This Is My Street is presented Vaughan, These Dangerous Years is presented here in here in a brand-new transfer from the original film a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.

Jubilee Close, a drab street of decaying houses in Dave, a young Liverpudlian gang-leader and would-be ’s Battersea, is home to a cross-section of rock ‘n’ roll star, is conscripted into the army where, to working-class families. Yearning to escape from this everyone’s surprise, the rebellious youth makes good. depressing environment is the pretty, ambitious But then he is tricked by the camp bully into crossing Margery Graham; the victim of an enforced marriage... a minefield, causing the death of his best friend. Awaiting court-martial, he learns he was set up… SPECIAL FEATURES: Image Gallery / Original Pressbook PDF SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery / Original Pressbook PDF Original Theatrical Trailer 1963 / 1.66:1 / Black and White / 91 mins / Mono / English 1957 / 1.33:1 / Black and White/ 94 mins / Mono / English A global byword for cinematic quality of a Making a spectacular change from teen pop sensation quintessentially British nature, made to serious actress, Logie-Award-winning Australian singer more than 150 films over a three decade period. Patsy Ann Noble is the scene-stealing, bikini-clad femme A cherished and significant part of British film fatale in this stylish, cleverly plotted murder mystery. history, only selected films from both the Ealing and Giving Noble one of her earliest film roles and also Associated Talking Pictures strands have previously starring Mark Burns, and Shaun Curry, been made available on home video format - Death Is a Woman is presented here in a brand-new with some remaining unseen since their original digital transfer in its original theatrical aspect ratio. theatrical release. An undercover agent is sent to investigate narcotics The Ealing Rarities Collection redresses this smuggling on a sun-drenched Mediterranean island. imbalance - featuring new transfers from the best However, when both of his principal subjects die in available elements, in their correct aspect ratio, mysterious circumstances, he soon finds that he is also this multi-volume collection showcases a range of involved in a murder investigation... scarce films from both Basil Dean’s and ’s tenure as studio head, making them SPECIAL FEATURES: available once more to the general public. Original Theatrical Trailer / Alternate Scene [Mute] Image Gallery / Promotional Material PDFs

1966 / 1.66:1 / Colour / 80 mins / Mono / English THREE MEN IN A BOAT An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on the Thames. 1933 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 54 mins / Mono / English

LOYALTIES The sole Jewish guest at a Society gathering is robbed; when he exposes a fellow guest as the thief, he finds the veneer of racial tolerance to be disturbingly thin… 1933 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 68 mins / Mono / English

THE BAILIFFS In one of their earliest films, Crazy Gang stars star as a couple of incompetent broker’s men who take possession of the wrong house… 1932 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 25 mins / Mono / English

LABURNUM GROVE A respectable suburban householder shocks unwelcome visiting relatives by telling them that he is now a forger working for a criminal gang. 1936 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 71 mins / Mono / English This Brit-noir crime thriller features Googie Withers, James Hayter, and Broadway veteran Jack La Rue, who would become familiar to cinemagoers as This enchanting Ruritanian romance marked the one of Hollywood’s most dependable screen gangsters. second pairing of and British film heroine Released in Britain in 1939, Murder in Soho is Anna Neagle under the direction of Herbert Wilcox. presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original Blending sumptuous pageantry and richly varied film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. music and choreography, King’s Rhapsody echoed the abdication crises that enthralled pre-War Europe, One of the brightest spots in Soho was the Cotton Club, with Flynn starring as the prince who falls for a run by American Steve Marco. So when double-crossing commoner. The film is presented here in a brand-new Joe Lane threatened to tell the police of Steve’s past, Joe transfer from the original elements, in its as-exhibited had to be murdered... theatrical aspect ratio. SPECIAL FEATURES: SPECIAL FEATURES: Image gallery / Original Script PDF Image gallery / Promotional Material PDF 1939 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 69 mins / 1955 / 2.35:1 / Colour / 89 mins / Mono / English Mono / English ’s Warren Mitchell heads an outstanding cast as an ambitious but none-too-bright Pairing Margaret Leighton and , salesman in this sharply scripted comedy of workplace The Passionate Stranger is a gentle satire on the deviousness and one-upmanship. Based on BAFTA conventions of the romantic novel and the perils of nominee David Turner’s 1962 stage hit Semi-Detached, confusing reality with fiction. Directed in inventive All the Way Up is presented here in a brand-new fashion by Oscar winner Muriel Box, this hugely transfer from the original film elements in its as- engaging comedy is made available here in a exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. brand-new transfer from the original elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Fred Midway will do anything to climb to the top of the corporate tree, and when his aspirations suffer various Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose setbacks, Fred even manages to turn a desperate romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of situation to his advantage… only to be blackmailed by female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young his son – a real chip off the old block! Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith he causes quite a flutter... SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer / Image Gallery SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Pressbook PDF Theatrical trailer / Image gallery 1970 / 1.66:1 / Colour / 94 mins / Mono / English 1956 / 1.33:1 / Colour + Black and White / 93 mins / Mono / English This 1967 comedy stars the inimitable as a budding playwright whose magnum opus seems a cast-iron guarantee of box-office disaster. Featuring support from an array of British film and television stars – including , , Ronald In an early lead role, stars in a Radd and Wanda Ventham – Mister Ten Per Cent is compelling murder melodrama charting a struggling presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original novelist’s desperate bid to start life anew – in a dead film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. man’s clothes… Dead Men Are Dangerous captures the richly talented British star at a point of transition, Percy Pointer may work on a building site, but his as West End acclaim gave way to burgeoning film passion is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted success; Newton’s pre-War achievements would be to the play he is writing. It means everything to him consolidated with iconic portrayals of Bill Sikes and When Percy’s play is finished, it arrives on the desk Long John Silver in the 1940s and ’50s. This rare, of Jocelyn Macauley, London’s leading impresario, London-set thriller is presented here in a brand-new at a time when he is particularly anxious to stage a digital transfer from the original film elements. resounding flop and so incur an impressive tax loss…

SPECIAL FEATURES: SPECIAL FEATURES: Image Gallery / Alternate Titles Image gallery / Original theatrical trailer Original Pressbook PDF 1939 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 66 mins / Mono / English 1967/ 2.35:1 / Colour / 80 mins / Mono / English Phenomenally successful entertainers and team up with larger-than-life Imposing stage actor and playwright Matheson vaudevillian Teddy Brown and future horror queen Hazel Lang was one of the twentieth century’s greatest Court for this 1944 comedy feature – presented here Shakespearean players, and became Britain’s in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake Directed by , Dreaming sees the duo of England, one of his final films, he takes the title seemingly proving that no good deed goes unpunished… role in Arthur Woods’ portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded When a pretty Wren faints in a crowded train, Private Britain’s sea fortunes. Bud Flanagan and Captain Ches Allen are quick to render first aid. But over Bud’s head, a heavy kitbag One of very few surviving films directed in the wobbles; it falls and scores a direct hit, knocking 1930s by the prodigiously talented Woods, it is him unconscious. What follows is a dream sequence presented here in a brand-new transfer from the involving Ches, the Wren and Bud himself in a series of original elements in its as-exhibited theatrical hilarious adventures – as well as a magical medley of aspect ratio. the duo’s best-loved musical numbers!

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1935 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 95 mins / 1944 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 74 mins / Mono / English Mono / English The Comedy Man features one of Kenneth More’s Adapting a story by Edgar Wallace, one of the most compelling and sympathetic performances as an twentieth century’s most celebrated and prolific embattled but resolutely upbeat provincial actor staring suspense writers, this 1940 crime thriller centres middle age and failure in the face; wry, touching and on the attempts of Flying Squad officers to smash deftly scripted with a superb supporting cast, it is easy a London drug-smuggling ring. The final feature to see why More ranked this film among his favourites. by leading silent-era director Herbert Brenon, The Comedy Man is presented here in a brand-new The Flying Squad stars some of the era’s most digital transfer from the original film elements in its accomplished performers, including Sebastian original aspect ratio. Shaw, and Kathleen Harrison, and is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the SPECIAL FEATURES: original film elements. Original Theatrical Trailer / Image Gallery Promotional Material PDF SPECIAL FEATURES: Image Gallery / Promotional Material PDF 1955 / 1.66:1 / Black and White / 88 mins / Mono / English 1940 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 59 mins / Mono / English Ian Carmichael – one of British cinema’s most accomplished character actors and immortalised in the television role of P.G. Wodehouse’s genial upper-class bumbler – heads a strong cast in this comedy Cold War thriller. Directed by the BAFTA-nominated Cy Endfield,Hide and Seek also Released in 1930 by British International Pictures in stars Oscar winner Hugh Griffith, Curt Jurgens and response to the lavish revues being produced by the ; the film is presented here in a brand-new major Hollywood studios, Elstree Calling was Britain’s transfer from the original elements, in its as-exhibited first musical film. theatrical aspect ratio. This all-star vaudeville show features performers drawn Whilst working on a top-secret missile project, from some of the era’s most popular London productions, research scientist David Garret runs into an old friend including Cicely Courtneidge, , John from behind the Iron Curtain. The hapless professor of Longden, and music-hall veterans Will Fyffe and Lily astronomy is shortly to find himself at the centre of a Morris. Compèred by Tommy Handley, the film presents kidnap plan designed to make it appear that he has in nineteen comedy and musical sketches in the guise fact defected to the Soviet Union… of a ‘live’ television broadcast; Alfred Hitchcock – then under contract to BIP – was responsible for creating the SPECIAL FEATURES: sketches and linking material. Image Gallery SPECIAL FEATURES: 1963 / 1.66:1 / Black and White / 87 mins / Image Gallery Mono / English 1930 / 1.19:1 / Black and White + Colour / 83 mins / Mono / English This month at the Essoldo, Cheam High Street’s luxurious cinema club:

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