She stayed long enough to tell me the story and never once remarked on the Ealing comedy taking place outside the window.

But it is in the vein of other black Ealing comedies, isn't it?

If anyone can make the first great modern Ealing comedy, it might just be Landis.

For a cosy Ealing comedy it was incredibly black.

The classic Ealing comedy receives a blissfully funny theatrical makeover.

The movie is, she concedes, a bit like one of the old Ealing comedies, but darker, more biting and fundamentally more serious.

The film was indifferently received on release and is not generally included in the canon of classic Ealing Comedies.

He had a role in the 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore!

The films have become synonymous with the studios, in a manner that resembles the Ealing Comedies.

The filmmakers said they were inspired by Jacobean theatre and Ealing comedies of the 1950s.