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Fifty years on, it's hard to appreciate just how shocking one key scene in The Blue Lamp was considered by British audiences. Young delinquent Tom Riley (played with sensuous malevolence by Dirk Bogarde) guns down kindly, benevolent copper, PC Dixon (Jack Warner.) In early 1950s Britain, murdering a policeman was the ultimate taboo. Even the underworld's denizens help the police flush Riley ...

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee
Directed By: Basil Dearden

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler, Douglas Barr, Joan Dowling
Directed By: Charles Crichton

It's generally acknowledged that the Master of Suspense disliked costume dramas and Jamaica Inn--a rip-roaring melodrama drawn from a Daphne du Maurier pot-boiler, set in 1820s Cornwall--is about as costumed as they come. So what was he doing directing it? Killing time, essentially. In 1939 Hitchcock was due to leave Britain for Hollywood, but delays Stateside left him with time on his ...

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Manufacturer: Slam Dunk Media
Starring: Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth More, Frederick Piper, Alfie Bass, James Donald
Directed By: John Eldridge

Manufacturer: Dd Home Entertainment
Starring: Jack Lambert, Gordon Jackson, Frederick Piper, Grant Sutherland, Bill Blewitt
Directed By: Harry Watt

This second collection of Ealing Comedy, while not quite as important a reissue as the first box, is nonetheless essential viewing for all aficionados of classic English film. In Passport to Pimlico a group of Londoners demonstrate, paradoxically, their Englishness by eccentrically choosing the Burgundian citizenship granted them by a rediscovered medieval charter. Similarly, in ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, George Relph, Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper
Directed By: Andrew Snell, Charles Crichton, Henry Cornelius

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler, Douglas Barr, Joan Dowling
Directed By: Charles Crichton

Manufacturer: Dd Home Entertainment
Starring: Tommy Trinder, Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Jean Kent, Austin Trevor
Directed By: Alberto Cavalcanti

Manufacturer: Alpha Video
Starring: Frank Cellier, William Dewhurst, Athol Fleming, Alf Goddard, Arthur Goullet
Directed By: Robert Stevenson

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Kenneth Griffith, Raymond Huntley
Directed By: Robert Day, Sidney Gilliat