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Dead Of Night (1945) -- (Movie Clip) So It Isn't A Dream This Time? Basil Dearden directs this opening bit, as architect Craig (Mervyn Johns), greeted by Foley (Roland Culver) meets Mary Merrall, Googie Withers, Frederick Valk, Antony Baird and Sally Ann Howes, mystery already, in the Ealing Studios light-horror anthology Dead Of Night, 1945.

Ladykillers, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) It's Mrs. Wilberforce After prim opening credits from Ealing Studios, the introduction of Katie Johnson as "Mrs. Wilberforce," whom the local constables are convinced is quite daft, in Alexander Mackendrick's The Ladykillers, 1955, starring Alec Guinness.

Ladykillers, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) You Must Be Professionals Scheming thieves (Alec Guinness as "Professor Marcus," with Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Danny Green, Cecil Parker) leap to their string quartet ruse when landlady Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) appears, in The Ladykillers, 1955.

Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Victims Of The Revolution Alec Guinness (as "Holland") in the marvelous opening scene, made better when Chiquita (Audrey Hepburn in a walk-on!) appears, from the Ealing Studios hit comedy The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951.

Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Someone Far Bigger Holland (Alec Guinness) and Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) are not so much lying-in-wait as recruiting, enticing thieves Shorty (Alfie Bass) and Lackery (Sidney James) into their band in The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951.

Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Many A Rascal Holland (Alec Guinness) continues his flashback narration, leading to a scene introducing Mrs. Chalk (Marjorie Fielding) and cohort-to-be Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway) in the Ealing Studios hit comedy The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951.

Secret People (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Is That The Man Who Killed Father? At the Paris Exposition, 1937, naturalized Brits Maria and Eleanora (Valentina Cortese, Audrey Hepburn), with friend Anselmo (Charles Goldner), see the hated dictator (Hugo Schuster) from their un-named homeland, and meet long-lost boyfriend Louis (Serge Reggiani), in Secret People, 1952.

Went The Day Well? (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Speak Quite Freely Innocent goings-on in an English village, Major Hammond (Basil Sydney) explaining his mission to the vicar (C.V. France) whose daughter (Valerie Taylor) brings along home-guard chief Wilsford (Leslie Banks), Mrs. Fraser (Marie Lohr) arranging rooms for soldiers, before a seismic plot turn, in Went The Day Well, 1942.

Went The Day Well? (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Fifth Column In England Mrs. Fraser (Marie Lohr) hosts Hammond and aide (Basil Sydney, John Slater), who are secretly Nazis, with traitor Willsford (Leslie Banks), the vicar (C.V. France) and Nora (Valerie Taylor), who puzzles over news from Mrs. Collins (Muriel George), in Went The Day Well?, 1942.

Went The Day Well? (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Battle Of Bramley End Unique opening and premise, Mervyn Johns recounts the not-then-secured victory over Germany, in a fictional Worcestershire town, locals Tom, Peggy and Ivy (Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Thora Hird) introduced, in the Ealing Studios yarn of a Nazi invasion, Went The Day Well?, 1942.

Went The Day Well? (1942) -- (Movie Clip) What Does Wien Mean? English vicar's daughter Nora (Valerie Taylor) flips when George (Harry Fowler) finds Austrian chocolate in the kit of the visiting army major, who really is a Nazi, but has no idea her confidante Willsford (Leslie Banks) is helping him plot an invasion, in Went The Day Well, 1942.

Man in the White Suit, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Clear the Lab! Hoskins (Henry Mollison) is shocked to find that Sidney (Alec Guinness) has enlisted the boss Mr. Birmley (Cecil Parker) to back his research scheme in Ealing Studios' The Man in the White Suit, 1951.

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