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EALING STUDIOS Rarities Collection - Volume 8 UK 2 DVD Disc Set (2013)
Header Photo: The extraordinary Belinda Lee in The Feminine Touch, one of the films in the boxset.
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Actors: George Baker, Belinda Lee, Griffith Jones, Jimmy Hanley, John Loder
THE EALING STUDIOS RARITIES COLLECTION
The Ealing Rarities Collection features new transfers from the best available elements, in their correct aspect ratio. This 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.
THE FEMININE TOUCH (1956)
A group of young nurses are followed through their training, facing the familiar trials of ardouous duties, romantic complications, nightmare patients, jolly doctors, stern matrons.
YOUNG MAN'S FANCY (1939)
A romantic comedy set in 1870 in which a young nobleman resists his domineering mother's attempt to force him into an unsuitable marriage, and falls in love instead with a human cannonball. They elope to Paris, facing both the siege and parental wrath. Naturally, all ends well.
THERE AIN'T NO JUSTICE (1939)
Pen Tennyson's first film was a 'programmer' about a young boxer in a working-class London milieu who, on turning professional, learns that his fights are being fixed, with subsequent damage to his conscience.
THE SILENT PASSENGER (1935)
In his first film sighting, Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L. Sayers' famous amateur sleuth, sets out to prove the innocence of an acquaintance accused of murder.
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THE FEMININE TOUCH (1956)
Opened in the UK March 1956.
US title: The Gentle Touch.
The Eastmancolor photography by Paul Beeson captured convincingly the atmosphere of the hospital.
YOUNG MAN'S FANCY (1939)
Opened in the UK in August 1939.
THERE AIN'T NO JUSTICE (1939)
In the US known as Woman in Bondage. The director Penrose Tennyson was the great-grandson of the poet. He worked as Alfred Hitchcock's assistant on The Man Who Knew Too Much and some years later married one of its stars, Nova Pilbeam. He was dead before he was thirtyu.
THE SILENT PASSENGER (1935)
Directed by Reginald Denham.
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I'll start it off: this Dvd set is worth it alone for Belinda Lee in The Feminine Touch. It's not even a great movie - it's a kind of Doctor in the House without the laughs - but it is that woman as a trainee nurse bathed in the dreamlike Eastmancolor that is something wonderous to behold. It's like the Goddess Venus landing on Planet Earth and deciding to work in the NHS. I swear I've never seen anything like it in my local Hospital. If this was the NHS in the 1950s then it's yet more prove how far the current model has fallen since those golden days.
I knew nothing about her before the movie, After I kept thinking that her on screen presence is as big and spellbinding as a Greta Garbo or Marlene Dietrich. I'm in love with someone I will never know! Life is a b#tch at times.
She's way too glamourous for the role. That mane of blonde hair deserves an acting credit on its own. Crafted like a moving work of art.
Don't take my word for it though. Get the Dvd set and see for yourself.
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Condition: New. 2016: I've got a handful in as I want to try and sell as many of this wonderful Dvd as possible and have priced it as low as I possibly can so more people can enjoy it. All are in new condition.
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