The local clergy and gentry, who've used the local railway for yonks, band together to prevent the local line from being closed, ending up at war with the local lorry drivers. Warm beer, the sound of leather on willow, but a lot less pollution, so let's give a rousing cheer for a few of our traditional values in this extremely funny Ealing Comedy, one of the last of the line there to.
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WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (1960)
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour, a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko, played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine, who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern post-war Ginza district. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. A profoundly moving masterpiece.
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WHISKY GALORE! (1948)
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One of the best Ealing Comedies. Wartime Scotland is blighted with the curse of whisky rationing, but for the inhabitants of one remote Hebridean island, Barra, a shipwreck brings them vast quantities of their fave beverage. Can they keep the stuff hidden from the Customs and Excise? Brilliant!
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