Optimum continue their releases of classic and not so well known films from the golden era of Ealing Studios in June with another three, perhaps lesser known titles.

Keep Your Seats Please (1936) – UK DVD premiere.
George Formby stars as casual chancer George Withers, perennially broke but fortunate enough to have the affection of his Aunt Georgina. Eccentric, wealthy and on her last legs, George is her favourite nephew, but she knows a pack of grasping relatives all have their eyes on her estate. In a last attempt to safeguard George's future she sews £90,000 worth of jewels and bonds into the cushion of her antique chair. On Georgina's death it emerges the chair is part of a set of six, all dispatched around the country to separate auctions. Aided by Florrie (Florence Desmond) and her little niece Binkie (Binkie Stewart), the chase is on to find the right chair as Georgina's wide-eyed and shifty lawyer (Alistair Sim) follows swiftly behind. A fast paced comedy directed by Monty Banks and featuring favourite Formby musical number When I'm Cleaning Windows.

Nine Men (1943) - UK DVD premiere.
The North Africa campaign in WWII: when their convoy is destroyed by enemy aircraft, nine British soldiers are forced to make a stand in an abandoned desert hovel against almost overwhelming Italian forces. The first feature from celebrated documentary maker Harry Watt after his arrival at Ealing, Nine Men helped set the pattern for Ealing films in the later part of the war, with an emphasis on ordinary heroism from the ranks rather than the officer class. Gritty, violent and exciting, it is highly lauded as a portrayal of character under duress. Starring Jack Lambert (The Four Feathers) as no nonsense Sergeant Jack Watson who holds the group together and Gordon Jackson (The Great Escape). Directed by Harry Watt (Where No Vultures Fly).

Painted Boats (1945) - UK DVD premiere.
Part romance and part documentary, Painted Boats follows the lives and loves of two boat families on the Midlands canal. The "traditional" Smiths, Pa and Ma Smith and their daughter Mary live on horse-drawn barge “Sunny Valley” and the "progressive" Stoners, Mother, Ted Stoner and younger brother Alf, on the motor-barge "Golden Boy". Charles Crichton directs the film in the Ealing documentary style, with a voiceover narration by Louis MacNeice. Set against some of England's most beautiful scenery, the seemingly irreconcilable love story plays out between Ted (Robert Griffiths) desperate for a new life in the towns, and traditional Mary (Jenny Laird, Black Narcissus), unable to contemplate leaving the barges.

All three films will be released individually on UK DVD on 22nd June 2009 by Optimum Home Entertainment at the RRP of £15.99 each. There are no extras on any of the discs.