Only hard men wear cravats! See These Dangerous Years

Only hard men wear cravats! See These Dangerous Years!
Also on release this month:
Three Men in a Boat
The Passionate Stranger
Dreaming
Elstree Calling
Laburnum Grove
Death is a Woman
The Comedy Man
All The Way Up
Murder in Soho
This is My Street
The Bailiffs
The Flying Squad
Drake of England
Loyalties
King’s Rhapsody
Mister Ten Per Cent
Dead Men Are Dangerous
Hide and Seek
Ian Hendry, June Ritchie, John Hurt, Annette Andre
and Mike Pratt feature among an outstanding cast
in this mid-sixties realist drama from noted director
Sidney Hayers. This Is My Street is presented
here in a brand-new transfer from the original film
elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Jubilee Close, a drab street of decaying houses in
London’s Battersea, is home to a cross-section of
working-class families. Yearning to escape from this
depressing environment is the pretty, ambitious
Margery Graham; the victim of an enforced marriage...
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Image Gallery / Original Pressbook PDF
Original Theatrical Trailer
1963 / 1.66:1 / Black and White / 91 mins /
Mono / English
Legendary crooner Frankie Vaughan stars with George
Baker, Kenneth Cope and Thora Hird in this 1957
drama directed by Herbert Wilcox. The first of four films
produced by Wilcox’s wife Anna Neagle and starring
Vaughan, These Dangerous Years is presented here in
a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in
its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Dave, a young Liverpudlian gang-leader and would-be
rock ‘n’ roll star, is conscripted into the army where, to
everyone’s surprise, the rebellious youth makes good.
But then he is tricked by the camp bully into crossing
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
Original Theatrical Trailer
1957 / 1.33:1 / Black and White/ 94 mins /
Mono / English
Making a spectacular change from teen pop sensation
to serious actress, Logie-Award-winning Australian singer
Patsy Ann Noble is the scene-stealing, bikini-clad femme
fatale in this stylish, cleverly plotted murder mystery.
Giving Noble one of her earliest film roles and also
starring Mark Burns, Wanda Ventham and Shaun Curry,
Death Is a Woman is presented here in a brand-new
digital transfer in its original theatrical aspect ratio.
A global byword for cinematic quality of a
quintessentially British nature, Ealing Studios made
more than 150 films over a three decade period.
A cherished and significant part of British film
history, only selected films from both the Ealing and
Associated Talking Pictures strands have previously
been made available on home video format with some remaining unseen since their original
theatrical release.
An undercover agent is sent to investigate narcotics
smuggling on a sun-drenched Mediterranean island.
However, when both of his principal subjects die in
mysterious circumstances, he soon finds that he is also
involved in a murder investigation...
The Ealing Rarities Collection redresses this
imbalance - featuring new transfers from the best
available elements, in their correct aspect ratio,
this multi-volume collection showcases a range of
scarce films from both Basil Dean’s and Michael
Balcon’s tenure as studio head, making them
available once more to the general public.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Original Theatrical Trailer / Alternate Scene [Mute]
Image Gallery / Promotional Material PDFs
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 Flanagan and Allen 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
1966 / 1.66:1 / Colour / 80 mins / Mono / English
This enchanting Ruritanian romance marked the
second pairing of Errol Flynn and British film heroine
Anna Neagle under the direction of Herbert Wilcox.
Blending sumptuous pageantry and richly varied
music and choreography, King’s Rhapsody echoed
the abdication crises that enthralled pre-War Europe,
with Flynn starring as the prince who falls for a
commoner. The film is presented here in a brand-new
transfer from the original elements, in its as-exhibited
theatrical aspect ratio.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Image gallery / Promotional Material PDF
1955 / 2.35:1 / Colour / 89 mins / Mono / English
This Brit-noir crime thriller features Googie Withers,
James Hayter, Bernard Lee and Broadway veteran Jack
La Rue, who would become familiar to cinemagoers as
one of Hollywood’s most dependable screen gangsters.
Released in Britain in 1939, Murder in Soho is
presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original
film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
One of the brightest spots in Soho was the Cotton Club,
run by American Steve Marco. So when double-crossing
Joe Lane threatened to tell the police of Steve’s past, Joe
had to be murdered...
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Image gallery / Original Script PDF
1939 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 69 mins /
Mono / English
Pairing Margaret Leighton and Ralph Richardson,
The Passionate Stranger is a gentle satire on the
conventions of the romantic novel and the perils of
confusing reality with fiction. Directed in inventive
fashion by Oscar winner Muriel Box, this hugely
engaging comedy is made available here in a
brand-new transfer from the original elements in its
as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose
romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of
female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young
Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith he
causes quite a flutter...
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Theatrical trailer / Image gallery
1956 / 1.33:1 / Colour + Black and White /
93 mins / Mono / English
Till Death Us Do Part’s Warren Mitchell heads an
outstanding cast as an ambitious but none-too-bright
salesman in this sharply scripted comedy of workplace
deviousness and one-upmanship. Based on BAFTA
nominee David Turner’s 1962 stage hit Semi-Detached,
All the Way Up is presented here in a brand-new
transfer from the original film elements in its asexhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Fred Midway will do anything to climb to the top of the
corporate tree, and when his aspirations suffer various
setbacks, Fred even manages to turn a desperate
situation to his advantage… only to be blackmailed by
his son – a real chip off the old block!
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Original Theatrical Trailer / Image Gallery
Original Pressbook PDF
1970 / 1.66:1 / Colour / 94 mins / Mono / English
In an early lead role, Robert Newton stars in a
compelling murder melodrama charting a struggling
novelist’s desperate bid to start life anew – in a dead
man’s clothes… Dead Men Are Dangerous captures
the richly talented British star at a point of transition,
as West End acclaim gave way to burgeoning film
success; Newton’s pre-War achievements would be
consolidated with iconic portrayals of Bill Sikes and
Long John Silver in the 1940s and ’50s. This rare,
London-set thriller is presented here in a brand-new
digital transfer from the original film elements.
This 1967 comedy stars the inimitable Charlie Drake
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 George Baker, John Le Mesurier, Ronald
Radd and Wanda Ventham – Mister Ten Per Cent is
presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original
film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
Percy Pointer may work on a building site, but his
passion is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted
to the play he is writing. It means everything to him
When Percy’s play is finished, it arrives on the desk
of Jocelyn Macauley, London’s leading impresario,
at a time when he is particularly anxious to stage a
resounding flop and so incur an impressive tax loss…
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Image Gallery / Alternate Titles
SPECIAL FEATURES:
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
Imposing stage actor and playwright Matheson
Lang was one of the twentieth century’s greatest
Shakespearean players, and became Britain’s
foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake
of England, one of his final films, he takes the title
role in Arthur Woods’ portrayal of the life and times
of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded
Britain’s sea fortunes.
Phenomenally successful entertainers Bud Flanagan
and Chesney Allen team up with larger-than-life
vaudevillian Teddy Brown and future horror queen Hazel
Court for this 1944 comedy feature – presented here
in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements.
Directed by John Baxter, Dreaming sees the duo
seemingly proving that no good deed goes unpunished…
One of very few surviving films directed in the
1930s by the prodigiously talented Woods, it is
presented here in a brand-new transfer from the
original elements in its as-exhibited theatrical
aspect ratio.
When a pretty Wren faints in a crowded train, Private
Bud Flanagan and Captain Ches Allen are quick to
render first aid. But over Bud’s head, a heavy kitbag
wobbles; it falls and scores a direct hit, knocking
him unconscious. What follows is a dream sequence
involving Ches, the Wren and Bud himself in a series of
hilarious adventures – as well as a magical medley of
the duo’s best-loved musical numbers!
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Image Gallery
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Image Gallery / Promotional Material PDF
1935 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 95 mins /
Mono / English
1944 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 74 mins /
Mono / English
Adapting a story by Edgar Wallace, one of the
twentieth century’s most celebrated and prolific
suspense writers, this 1940 crime thriller centres
on the attempts of Flying Squad officers to smash
a London drug-smuggling ring. The final feature
by leading silent-era director Herbert Brenon,
The Flying Squad stars some of the era’s most
accomplished performers, including Sebastian
Shaw, Jack Hawkins and Kathleen Harrison, and
is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the
original film elements.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Image Gallery / Promotional Material PDF
1940 / 1.33:1 / Black and White / 59 mins /
Mono / English
The Comedy Man features one of Kenneth More’s
most compelling and sympathetic performances as an
embattled but resolutely upbeat provincial actor staring
middle age and failure in the face; wry, touching and
deftly scripted with a superb supporting cast, it is easy
to see why More ranked this film among his favourites.
The Comedy Man is presented here in a brand-new
digital transfer from the original film elements in its
original aspect ratio.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Original Theatrical Trailer / Image Gallery
Promotional Material PDF
1955 / 1.66:1 / Black and White / 88 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 Bertie Wooster – heads a strong
cast in this comedy Cold War thriller. Directed by the
BAFTA-nominated Cy Endfield, Hide and Seek also
stars Oscar winner Hugh Griffith, Curt Jurgens and
Janet Munro; the film is presented here in a brand-new
transfer from the original elements, in its as-exhibited
theatrical aspect ratio.
Whilst working on a top-secret missile project,
research scientist David Garret runs into an old friend
from behind the Iron Curtain. The hapless professor of
astronomy is shortly to find himself at the centre of a
kidnap plan designed to make it appear that he has in
fact defected to the Soviet Union…
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Image Gallery
1963 / 1.66:1 / Black and White / 87 mins /
Mono / English
Released in 1930 by British International Pictures in
response to the lavish revues being produced by the
major Hollywood studios, Elstree Calling was Britain’s
first musical film.
This all-star vaudeville show features performers drawn
from some of the era’s most popular London productions,
including Cicely Courtneidge, Anna May Wong, John
Longden, and music-hall veterans Will Fyffe and Lily
Morris. Compèred by Tommy Handley, the film presents
nineteen comedy and musical sketches in the guise
of a ‘live’ television broadcast; Alfred Hitchcock – then
under contract to BIP – was responsible for creating the
sketches and linking material.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Image Gallery
1930 / 1.19:1 / Black and White + Colour /
83 mins / Mono / English
This month at the Essoldo, Cheam High Street’s luxurious cinema club:
Licensed premises. Drinks on sticks and monkey nuts by the pound also available. Book early to avoid disappointment. God Save the King.
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