Optimum continue their Ealing Studios Collection releases with three more films from the studio's heyday, the mix this time providing two comedies and a wartime drama documentary.

Trouble Brewing (1939) features wartime entertainment icon George Formby as George Gullip, whose official position in the offices of The Daily Sun is that of compositor, but unofficially (and only in George's mind) he is a brilliant detective. After he is passed counterfeit money at the races, George invents a process by means of which he hoped to track down criminals and confesses these intentions to pretty Mary Brown (Googie Withers – Dead of Night, Pink String & Sealing Wax, It Always Rains on Sunday), a secretary at the newspaper. George's ingenious invention is a method of leaving stains on people's fingers which cannot be erased and which leave their trace on everything the victim touches...

For Those in Peril (1944) follows the exploits of two pilots who instead work at sea rescuing downed RAF colleagues and presents the work of the Air-Sea Rescue in documentary terms, providing the public with a glimpse of an aspect of war that tends to be overlooked. It was also the closest Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob, Dead of Night, The Titfield Thunderbolt) got to documentary realism during his long Ealing career. The story was written by Richard Hillary, a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain whose experiences inspired his book, The Last Enemy.

My Learned Friend (1943) is generally regarded as one of the finest works of its star and co-director Will Hay, who plays plays a disbarred solicitor who, with the help of Claude (Claude Hulbert), embarks on a frantic chase in pursuit of a psychopathic murderer newly released from prison. The prisoner is working through a vengeance list with Claude's name near the top... Co-directed by Basil Dearden (a Hay regular who also contributed the hearse driver sequence and the linking story to Dead of Night), My Learned Friend is darker in tone to Hay's previous films and was his last film for Ealing. The humour, much of it revolving around a sequence of grisly murders, foreshadows the blackest of the studio's post-war comedies such as Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers.

All three films will be released individually by Optimum Home Entertainment on 27 April 2009 at the RRP of £15.99 each. Extra features, if any, have yet to be confirmed.