• Invasion Quartet
  [[Category:1961 films]] [[Category:1961 comedy-drama films]]
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• The Virgin Soldiers (film)
  | studio = High Road Productions<br>Open Road Films ...mpson]]. It is set in 1950, during the [[Malayan Emergency]], and is based on the 1966 [[The Virgin Soldiers|novel of the same name]] by [[Leslie Thomas]
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• We Joined the Navy
  ...]] and [[John Le Mesurier]]. Produced by [[Daniel M. Angel]], it was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by [[John Winton]] a former [[Royal Navy]] ...hot on location in [[Villefranche-sur-Mer]], near [[Nice]] and [[Monaco]], on board the [[Royal Naval College, Dartmouth]], and {{USS|Springfield|CL-66|6
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• You Know What Sailors Are (1954 film)
  ...dward Hyams]]. It was shot at [[Pinewood Studios]] and [[location shooting|on location]] around the [[Isle of Portland]]. The film's sets were designed b Three British naval officers out on a drunken spree attach a pram and a pawnbroker's sign to the stern of a for
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• The Baby and the Battleship
  | studio = Jay Lewis Productions<br>[[British Lion Films]] | distributor = British Lion Films<br>[[Distributors Corporation of America]] (US)
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• Private's Progress
  | based_on = {{Based on|''Private's Progress''|[[Alan Hackney]]}} | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] {{small|(UK)}}
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• On the Fiddle
  | image = On the Fiddle.jpg | based_on = {{based on|''[[Stop at a Winner]]''|[[R.F. Delderfield]]}}
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• Our Man in Havana (film)
  ...knows only by sight and sketches "plans" for a rocket-launching pad based on vacuum cleaner parts to increase his value to the service and to procure mo ...claiming his imagined machines had been dismantled. They bestow an [[OBE]] on Wormold and offer him a position teaching espionage classes in London.
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• They Met in the Dark
  | studio =Excelsior Films ...=They Met In The Dark|work=TV Guide}}</ref> The film is very loosely based on the 1941 novel ''[[The Vanishing Corpse]]'' by [[Anthony Gilbert (author)|A
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• Law and Disorder (1958 film)
  ...= A Paul Soskin Production<br>[[British Lion Film Corporation|British Lion Films Limited]] ...chive-date=2012-07-13|title=Law and Disorder|work=BFI}}</ref> It was based on the 1954 novel ''Smugglers' Circuit'' by [[Denys Roberts]]. The film was st
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• Strange Boarders
  ...d out her identity, they are astonished to discover a series of top secret military blueprints. The secret service are alerted and arrive at the hospital to q ...he job is top secret service agent Tommy Blythe (Walls), who happens to be on honeymoon with new wife Louise (Saint-Cyr). He is summoned back to London
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• The Assassination Bureau
  | based_on = {{based on|''[[The Assassination Bureau, Ltd]].''<br />1963 novel|[[Jack London]]<br / ...gens]]. It was released in the U.S. by [[Paramount Pictures]] and is based on [[Jack London]]'s unfinished novel, ''[[The Assassination Bureau, Ltd]]'',
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• Hannibal Brooks
  ...ael Winner]] and written by [[Ian La Frenais]] and [[Dick Clement]], based on a story by Winner and Tom Wright.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://flashbak.com/y ...are fictional. The title alludes to the [[Ancient Carthage|Carthaginian]] military commander [[Hannibal]] who led an army with [[war elephant]]s over the [[Al
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• The League of Gentlemen (film)
  | based_on = {{based on|''[[The League of Gentlemen (novel)|The League of Gentlemen]]''|[[John Bola | distributor = [[British Lion Films]]
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• The Americanization of Emily
  | based_on = {{based on|''The Americanization of Emily''|[[William Bradford Huie]]}} ...ient adjutant to Rear Admiral William Jessup. Charlie's job as a [[Batman (military)|batman]] is to keep his boss and other high-ranking officers supplied with
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• The Wrong Box
  | based_on = {{based on|''[[w:The Wrong Box (novel)|The Wrong Box]]''|[[w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Ro ...y [[Columbia Pictures]].<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb3d462|title=The Wrong Box (1966)|publisher=British Film I
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• The Mouse That Roared (film)
  ...ana XII; Count Rupert Mountjoy, the Prime Minister; and Tully Bascomb, the military leader; and co-stars [[Jean Seberg]]. The film was directed by [[Jack Arnol ...nt Mountjoy (Peter Sellers) devises a plan: Grand Fenwick will declare war on the United States, then surrender, taking advantage of American largesse to
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• Ian Carmichael
  ...yers||]]'s gentleman detective, [[w:Lord Peter Wimsey|Lord Peter Wimsey]], on [[w:Lord Peter Wimsey (TV series)|television]] and [[w:Lord Peter Wimsey (r ...n|demobilisation]] from the British Army in 1947, Carmichael worked mostly on stage. In 1949 he toured for seven months in ''[[Lilac Domino|The Lilac Dom
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• How I Won the War
  | based_on = {{based on|''How I Won the War''|[[Patrick Ryan (author and journalist)|Patrick Ryan]] ...role. The film, which was directed and produced by [[Richard Lester]], is based upon the 1963 novel of the same name by [[Patrick Ryan (author and journali
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• Bryan Forbes
  ...964) and ''[[King Rat (film)|King Rat]]'' (1965). He also scripted several films directed by others, such as ''[[The League of Gentlemen (film)|The League o ...une 2008. Retrieved 9 May 2013</ref> [[Lionel Gamlin]] of the BBC took him on as the host of ''Junior [[The Brains Trust|Brains Trust]]'', and invented C
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