1. Establishing Ealing Characteristics

2. Look at the individual film information
Make links to The Lavender Hill Mob
E.g.
Plot similarities?
Character types?
Settings – typically British?
Influence of a background of rationing and austerity
Actors, directors, screenwriters?
Representation of the class system?
Messages and values?

3. What did you find?
British eccentrics?

4. Dotty old ladies?

5. Locations familiar to British audiences

6. Fantasy of wealth, glamour and escape

7. Community spirit collapses class difference

8. Sweet-natured rebellion against authority

9. Mild anarchy