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StudioCanal will add two more classic Ealing films to its Blu-ray catalog: Basil Dearden's The Captive Heart (1946), starring Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, and Frederick Leister, and Alexander Mackendrick's The Maggie a.k.a. High and Dry (1954), starring Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, and James Copeland.
The Captive Heart
The Captive Heart is set in a German POW camp for British soldiers. Michael Redgrave plays a Czech patriot, who has assumed the identity of a deceased British officer to avoid being executed by the Nazis. When captured and placed in the camp, the British prisoners suspect the still-incognito Redgrave of being a spy. Only his conspicuous courage during an escape sequence vindicates the secretive Redgrave. The film's tinderbox tension is relieved with a joyous finale, which utilizes a fireworks display as adroitly as Hitchcock did in To Catch a Thief.
STREET DATE: MAY 25.
The Maggie
Ealing Studios comedy set in the Scottish isles. Hollywood's Paul Douglas plays Marshall, an American businessman who becomes involved with The Maggie, a rundown old shipping vessel captained by the taciturn skipper (Alex Mackenzie), when he is trying to find a way to convey his luggage to a remote island. It doesn't take Marshall long to realise that the skipper and his crew have pulled a fast one on him - but what can he do to stop them?
STREET DATE: MAY 4.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=16192
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