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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 22.3% - (48 Votes)
The Ladykillers (1955) 21.3% - (46 Votes)
Passport to Pimlico (1949) 15.3% - (33 Votes)
Whisky Galore! (1949) 10.2% - (22 Votes)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 9.7% - (21 Votes)
The Man in the White Suit (1951) 6.5% - (14 Votes)
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) 5.5% - (12 Votes)
My Learned Friend (1943) 2.7% - (6 Votes)
Hue and Cry (1947) 2.7% - (6 Votes)
A Run for Your Money (1949) 1.8% - (4 Votes)
The Maggie (1954) 0.9% - (2 Votes)
Let George Do It (1940) 0.4% - (1 Votes)
Barnacle Bill (1957) 0% - (0 Votes)

Total Votes: 215

Rob Compton

SO difficult, I've gone for the Lavender Hill Mob, but just by a whisker :)

rgds
Rob

rweasel

Agreed, I think, but perhaps I favour Titfield Thunderbolt, by just a whisker myself.

Rob Compton

I wonder: when Ealing were making these films, did they think "we've got a masterpiece here"? Probably not, once you start thinking like that, you must be on a downward slope....

I remember reading that Val Guest, one of the screenwriters of Oh Mr Porter, thought at the time that it was just another potboiler with the three idiots. And yet, for me and many others this film stands out from others as just sublime! It really does deserve the title of "classic" (one of the most overused words in the English language).

rgds
Rob

Hackett

"HUE AND CRY" 1947. Only because I watch it the most.

penfold

The Ladykillers, surely....Dark, dark, comedy, tremendous writing, great performances, Ealing's best director...and the miraculous Katie Johnson It's just about perfect....

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

paulsroom

For a long time I thought that "Kind Hearts and Coronets" was the best film and even hunted down the book upon which it was based - "Israel Rank" by Roy Horniman. Although I still think that it is a great film, if I had to choose just one film, I'd have to go for "The Ladykillers". Everything about it is so perfect, including all the cameo performances. I'd recommend it to any foreign friend!

Jennie_Kermode

'Kind Hearts and Coronets' for me.

Jennie

Wetherby Pond

Kind Hearts, but only by a whisker.

(The Ladykillers would be a very strong runner-up)

Yorkie

I went for The Man in The White Suit. I've not seen the two leaders though: Lady Killers and Kind Hearts. But don't worry, they're now on the top of my to watch list. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

Jim

What an impossible task; they are all great fillums! Although some are more great than others; different topics and themes, etc.

I always tend to go for the comic rather than the dramatic. (Does that say something about me?) Perhaps an inability to face reality? Who knows?

Good morning boys.

paulsroom

I understood that this poll is for comedies, so your choice (which you didn't state) would be applicable here anyway.

But if we were considering serious films, then "Dead of Night" would be my choice, although I think that "Great Expectations" has the best opening sequence of any film I've seen.

Sorry to change the direction of this poll, now everyone get back to the comedy choices>

Bob M.

Tony, as a railway buff, you might be interested to know that the location used for the robbery scene in The Ladykillers, ( the area between St Pancras station and Kings Cross ) has recently been flattened to make way for the Channel Tunnel railway. Being a train driver myself working into St Pancras I often visited the area and tried to imagine the scene being filmed. Just soaking up the atmosphere, needless to say The Ladykillers is my top Ealing film.
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Steve Crook

I don't know about "Ionicus". Sir Alec once said that he played that part, especially when he knocked on the door, as a tribute to Alastair Sim. Compare the way "The Professor" knocks on Mrs Wilberforce's door to the way "Mr Squales" knocks on the door in London Belongs to Me (1948).

Steve

GCarrivick

Can you tell m e where you got a copy of Israel Rank, please. As i am having a problem tracking it down