Guy Middleton

Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives. But his will has one last joke - they each have to undertake a task completely out of character within a month. As each sets out on their objective they find that quite apart from the promised riches, they are unexpectedly getting a lot out of the challenge. All except caddish Simon Russell, that is. Released in 1951, Laughter in Paradise was Britain's top-grossing film. Watch carefully and see a young Audrey Hepburn in a bit part as a cigarette girl. Featuring Alastair Sim. Available in HD in North America.

After a mistake at the Ministry of Education, the girls of St. Swithin's School are forced to move in with the boys of Nutbourne College, causing calamitously comedic chaos for their headmasters.

A spooky wartime Ealing classic about a group of people seeking shelter in an inn, where all is not what it seems.

Lewis Gilbert directs this British war drama starring Anthony Steel. In 1944, a group of prisoners in camp Marlag 'O' believe they have an informer among them after a series of failed escape attempts. Former artist Lieutenant Geoffrey Ainsworth devises a plan to create a dummy, which they christen Albert, to cover an escapee's absence and fool the German guards at roll call.

A star-crossed love affair unfolds in 19th-century czarist Russia between young peasant Maria Krasnova and military captain Nicolai Ilyinski.