This month’s selection is one of the most delightful comedies in the IFI Irish Film Archive’s collection.

Another Shore is a 1948 Ealing Studios tragi-comedy set in Dublin. Gulliver Shields (Robert Beatty) is a bored civil servant who day-dreams of escaping his mundane existence and sailing to Raratonga in the South Seas. Lacking the 200 guineas he requires to get there, he concocts a far-fetched money-making scheme which has him sitting at the dangerous junction of Dame Street and College Green every day waiting to save the life of a wealthy person and bag himself a handsome reward.

Life gets complicated when fate sends wealthy, generous, and itchy-footed Alistar MacNeill (Stanley Holloway) his way but also beautiful motorist, Jennifer (Moira Lister), who has romantic but stay-at-home designs on him. It is perhaps surprising that this fine comedy, directed by Charles Crichton (A Titfield Thunderbolt, The Lavender Hill Mob) and based on Judge Kenneth Reddin’s popular novel, isn’t more widely known.

For local audiences, the extensive street sequences in post-war Dublin are a particular pleasure.