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The other film, Brief Ecstasy (1937), directed by Edmond T Greville, a French film-maker at home on both sides of the Channel, is a little gem about a handsome middle-class Englishman (Hugh Williams) and the attractive student (Linden Travers) with whom he has a one-night stand in London and then meets again five years later, when she's married to a middle-aged continental scientist (Paul Lukas).

Michael Balcon brought the great Caval-canti to Ealing Studios to introduce the documentary tradition into feature films and the first movie he made there is this button-holing second world war thriller about...

Jim Crace, Birmingham novelist who is shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize for Harvest, chooses The Ladykillers directed by Alexander Mackendrick in 1955. He says: \"There wasn't a dud among the Ealing comedies, the films of my childhood. She says: \"Lovely frocks and shoes. Bit of a daft story about factory girls Diana Dors and Petula Clarke getting away from it all at the local palais de danse. It really catches the atmosphere of a good Friday night out 'up the palais'!\" Jonathan Coe, Birmingham novelist who is speaking at the Birmingham Literature Festival this week about his new novel, Expo 58, plumps for Dead of Night, from 1945 directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer, [Charles Crichton] and Basil Dearden.

Often called the most charming film Ealing never made (studio boss Sir Michael Balcon had to turn it down because that year's schedule was full), this beautiful colour comedy is about a weekend in Brighton for the...

I have a hardback book published by Methuen in 1935 of the film script of Michael Balcon's Jew Suss, which was directed...

Nine Men, the feature debut of documentarist Harry Watt, director of Night Mail (1936), is a morale-raising propaganda entertainment set in North Africa but shot on a Welsh beach.

Written and directed by established Ealing Studio hands, this was the Ealing comedy that got away because Michael Balcon couldn't fit it into his schedule.

\"We usually get around 100 people for our golf day so we'd like to double that or even get up to 250,\" said vice-president Keith Bracey. \"We've won three North Midlands cups, have been successful on the Sevens front and are one of the bastions of junior rugby in Birmingham. \"We're also trying to arrange a fixture for the day, maybe reinstigating Birmingham COBS or playing one of our traditional rivals. \"We're really looking forward to this event, the club means so much to all of us - I even met my wife there when she used to serve the players our dinners.\"