I agree, a fun film even my kids were held to it, they dont often tolerate
older films considering all the wiz pop and glamour of newer lesser films
that they watch, overall up there for me too.
Funny, what kids'll watch these days ... and what older films they don't seem to like. (A bit like being told broccoli tastes weird, then a kid grows up imagining it tastes bad yet hasn't ever had it.)
Ealing Studios was one of those "gems" along with RKO, the early United Artists, Rank and a couple of others during the 1930s-1950s that produced a good number of excellent films.
Among Ealing's other interesting films, IMO, there were:
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
- The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
- The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
- The Cruel Sea (1953)
- The Ladykillers (1955)
Kids might appreciate
The Lavender Hill Mob. Maybe. It feels "dated" but it's still fun in the same way
The Man In The White Suit is.
Gotta love the oldies but goodies. Sad, how many of those rotted in storage warehouses (and garages) to the point they were unrecoverable. To think that, for example,
The Wizard Of Oz almost met that fate, and it took a herculean effort to resurrect it and correct its storage-related flaws.