![]() ![]() He even made stop motion animated commercials for Horlicks with the legendary George Pal. ![]() Walter Thompson advertising agency, scripted commercials and co-written the feature film Midnight Menace (1937). By 1937 he had worked as an artist for the J. Prior to this he had worked on Pathe newsreels, propaganda films for the British Army and had written scripts for animated propaganda shorts for Halas and Batchelor. He arrived at Ealing in 1946 after the collapse of his Merlin Productions, set up with his cousin Roger MacDougall and which made films for the Ministry of Information. ![]() ![]() The film also gets its first Blu-Ray release.Īlexander Mackendrick brought his distinctive tone to five Ealing films, Whisky Galore! (1949), The Man in the White Suit (1951), Mandy (1952), The Maggie (1954) and The Ladykillers (1955). Along with Robert Hamer, director Alexander Mackendrick established his own style and approach within Ealing and this month StudioCanal celebrate his centenary by screening a fully restored digital print of The Man in the White Suit as part of the BFI Southbank's Mackendrick retrospective. ![]()
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