The Ealing Comedies

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti.

Residents of a part of London declare independence after they discover an old treaty, which leads to the need for a "Passport to Pimlico".

Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

Brothers from a Welsh village take their first trip to London to collect a prize, and meet a con artist and various other urban distractions.

A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.

Volunteers take over their local passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when the government announces its closure.

A television given as a retirement present is sold on to different households, causing misery each time.

Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.

An American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition.

The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British music halls. Young Davy is the star of the act, but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own?

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.