COMPETITION

Here's your chance to win five newly-released British film gems, including the Ealing Studios comedy drama The Rainbow Jacket, courtesy of Optimum Home Entertainment!

The Rainbow Jacket

A fine comedy drama, The Rainbow Jacket is a story brimful with human emotions.

When a champion jockey (Bill Owen, TV’s Last of the Summer Wine) is banned from racing he spends his time helping a young protégé (Fella Edmunds) to become the next champion, whilst reliving his glory days. Also starring Honor Blackman (The Avengers, Goldfinger), Sid James (Carry On) and Robert Morley (The African Queen, Great Expectations).

From BAFTA award-winning veteran Ealing director Basil Dearden (Dead of Night, Pool of London, The Blue Lamp).

An Inspector Calls

A stranger arrives at an upper class family household at dinnertime and announces himself as Inspector Poole. He says he is investigating the case of a young girl called Eva Smith who has committed suicide. He slowly reveals the secrets that each and every member of the family harbour, and how these secrets make them complicit in her death.

From the director of The Colditz Story and Goldfinger comes this superbly acted British drama, based on the famous stage play which was recently revived for the West End by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot).

The Pot Carriers

At the Old Bailey, James Rainbow (Ronald Fraser) is sentenced to a year in prison on charge of causing GBH. It is his first conviction, for he is not a criminal but a man goaded into violence by jealousy over his girlfriend, Wendy.

In prison, Rainbow is shocked by the indignities of duties imposed on him such as ‘pot-carrying’, but he is assigned to the kitchen gang where he soon becomes a part of their elaborate ‘fiddles’ – stealing food and selling it on for luxuries such as tobacco. As the final big ‘fiddle’ comes in for one of the inmates who is about to be released, it all goes horribly wrong and Rainbow must decide whether to make the ultimate sacrifice for one of his new friends.

The Tower of London

It’s the 15th century and Richard Duke of Gloucester has set out to eliminate those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. With a little help from his club-footed executioner, Mord, each murder is accomplished, and one by one Richard takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of his brother Edward he finally becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power. Starring Basil Rathbone, the original Sherlock Holmes.

The Constant Husband

From the vivid imagination of Sidney Gilliat (co-writer of Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes and the producer responsible for bringing the original St Trinians gang to the big screen) comes a witty, compelling and daring detective mystery with a difference.

When a nameless man wakes up in Wales with absolutely no recollection of who he is or how he got there he seeks out the help of a local psychiatrist. Through a process of regression he slowly begins to discover an appalling past of unbelievably bad behaviour and a callous character of extremely ill repute begins to surface. That’s not to mention the seven wives who are beginning to wonder where their scheming husband has disappeared too. Starring the legendary Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady, Blithe Spirit), Kay Kendall (Doctor In The House, The Reluctant Debutante) and Cecil Parker (The Ladykillers, The Man In The White Suit).

The usual competition rules apply. 

This competition closes on the 16th of March 2010.