Two important but little known films from Ealing, the British studio best known here for the Alec Guinness comedies of the Forties and Fifties.

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"Though in existence since 1930, Ealing as an organized entity reshaped under Michael Balcon's guidance really dates only from late 1938. This was the eighth film of the new company, and the first traditional Ealing comedy. The roots for many of the later Guinness and other comedies of the Forties and Fifties can be seen in this charming comedy of a major brewing company trying to wipe out the competition from a small family concern; it can even be seen to have some genial anti-Hitler propaganda too." --W.K. Everson