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Ealing comedies
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Many films were made by Ealing Studios (run by Michael *Balcon at Ealing in west London), but the term 'Ealing comedies' is used in particular of a very successful group in the late 1940s. They brilliantly combined anarchy and British eccentricity, as seen in The *Lavender Hill Mob, *Whisky Galore, *Kind Hearts and Coronets or *Passport to Pimlico. The last three all came out in May–June 1949.
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