The Great Ealing Film Challenge 31: Lease of Life (1954)
Dr Keith M. Johnston
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Posted 22.02.2012
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UK Entertainment
I've been excited about watching this film for months now, even before I started this 95-film challenge: it's one of Ealing's 13 colour films (an area of the studio's production strategy I find endlessly fascinating), it's photographed by Douglas Slocombe (one of British cinema's finest cinematographers), it's Robert Donat's only Ealing appearance (and his penultimate film), and it's filmed in the East Riding of Yorkshire, an area that rarely appears in British films.
