Comedies

Question 1

Which two actors do I remember the most from whiskey galore!?

Answer 1

Gordon Jackson
(Micheal Jackson dancing on the bar, whilst flash Gordon delves into the wine bin)

James Robertson Justice
(Carrying on a set of scales)

Question 2

Which film was well received on release. It came out in the same year as Passport to Pimlico and Kind Hearts and Coronets, leading to 1949 being remembered as one of the peak years of the Ealing comedies

Answer 2

Whisky Galore!

Question 3

The ** **is an informal name for a series of comedy films produced by the London-based Ealing Studios during a ten-year period from 1947 to 1957.

Often considered to reflect Britain’s what?

Answer 3

Ealing comedies

post-war spirit,

Question 4

The most celebrated films in the Ealing comedies sequence include what 5 films, released in which year?

Answer 4

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949),
Whisky Galore! (1949),
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951),
The Man in the White Suit (1951) and
The Ladykillers (1955)

Question 5

Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British crime black comedy film. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays ** characters

Answer 5

nine

Question 6

Which film? concerns Louis D’Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class. After her death, Louis decides to take revenge on the family and take the dukedom by murdering the eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the title.

Answer 6

Kind hearts and coronets

Question 7

Kind Hearts and Coronets was released on 13 June 1949 in the United Kingdom, and was well received by the critics.

It has continued to receive favourable reviews over the years and, in 1999, it was number six in the ** ** Institute’s rating of the Top 100 British films.

In 2005, it was included in Time’s list of the top 100 films since 1923.

Answer 7

British Film