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- {{short description|1954 film}} | based_on = {{Based on|''[[The Million Pound Bank Note]]''|[[Mark Twain]]}}7 KB (1,018 words) - 09:07, 31 January 2023
- | distributor = [[Bryanston Films (UK)|Bryanston Films]] ...stribution.pdf|last=Petrie|first= Duncan James |year=2017|title= Bryanston Films : An Experiment in Cooperative Independent Production and Distribution|jour7 KB (962 words) - 16:33, 12 April 2023
- ...Aimed mainly at children, they included short stories (some loosely based on TV episodes but most written for each annual), games, puzzles and historica ...Parachute Invasion, The Anti-Jerry Device, Souped-up Tactics!, The Platoon on Manoeuvres, False Alarm!, The New Recruits''<br />9 KB (1,329 words) - 13:48, 11 March 2023
- ...Search}}</ref> The screenplay by [[Frederic Raphael]] is based on the 1952 short story "The Best of Everything" by [[Stanley Ellin]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=ht ...n general nicely ambiguous, so that the film (like ''TW3'' itself) can put on quite a show of social ruthlessness and general audacity without committing7 KB (1,086 words) - 16:34, 8 September 2024
- ...by [[Eric Sykes]], and produced by [[Jon Penington]]. The story was based on an episode of Eric Sykes' [[BBC]] comedy series ''[[Sykes and a...]]'' from ...penters have to buy a replacement. They return to the house with the plank on top of a [[Morris Eight#Morris Eight Series E|Morris Eight Series E]], but7 KB (1,019 words) - 15:20, 20 February 2023
- {{short description|1951 film by Alexander Mackendrick}} ...is a 1951 British [[w:satire|satirical]] [[w:science fiction film|science fiction]] [[w:comedy film|comedy film]] made by [[w:Ealing Studios]]. It stars [[w:10 KB (1,507 words) - 17:07, 26 January 2023
- {{short description|1969 film by Richard Lester}} ...|accessdate=2010-03-07 |work=IMDb.com}}</ref> The film is an [[w:Absurdist fiction|absurdist]], [[w:post-apocalyptic|post-apocalyptic]], [[w:Satire|satirical]12 KB (1,791 words) - 23:42, 6 January 2023
- ...t professional engagement. He continued to write from the timber yard, his short stories, poems, manuscripts sometimes being accepted by various publishers. Melville left the timber yard and struggled on his own for a while until he met a composer called George McNeill. Together10 KB (1,382 words) - 16:21, 11 April 2023
- | name = On the Buses | image = On the Buses (film).jpg11 KB (1,733 words) - 12:23, 6 February 2023
- ...The film follows Lord Edmund Blackadder and his idiotic servant, Baldrick, on a [[time travel]] adventure that brings the characters into contact with se ...increased budget, it is the only ''Blackadder'' story to be shot entirely on film and with no [[laugh track]], although one was added for the [[BBC One]15 KB (2,229 words) - 14:20, 11 March 2023
- {{short description|English actor and director}} ...Film Productions|Hammer]], for whom he directed 14 films, and [[w:science fiction film]|]s. He enjoyed a long career in the film industry from the early 193016 KB (2,505 words) - 14:22, 24 December 2022
- {{short description|Fictional character created by Blake Edwards}} ...hat the mess on the floor was not accidental, Clouseau begins to ''dance'' on the mess as if he is deliberately rehearsing a "soft shoe" shuffle. As a p15 KB (2,316 words) - 12:25, 5 December 2022
- {{short description|English actor}} ...Becket (1964 film)|Becket]]'', ''[[Bunny Lake is Missing]]''), and science fiction (''[[Quatermass 2]]'', ''[[Night of the Big Heat (film)|Night of the Big He11 KB (1,679 words) - 16:42, 30 November 2022
- | genre = {{hlist|[[Science fiction]]|[[comedy]]|[[Horror fiction|horror]]}} ...nd novelist. Especially known for his work in [[British television science fiction]], he created the [[Dalek]]s and [[Davros]] for ''[[Doctor Who]]'', as well20 KB (2,802 words) - 13:56, 11 March 2023
- {{short description|1977 film by Harrison Marks}} ...m star Mary Millington honoured|url=http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/659451/A-blue-plaque-for-a-blue-lady-Risqu-film-star-Mary-Millington-honour17 KB (2,693 words) - 11:31, 11 January 2023
- {{short description|Welsh actor (1930–2019)}} Davies was born on 28 August 1930 in [[Canning Town]], [[East London]], to Welsh parents. In 115 KB (2,155 words) - 09:01, 26 December 2022
- {{short description|1993 film by Blake Edwards}} ...= $28 million<ref name="nat">Nat Segaloff, ''Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors'', Bear Manor Media 2013 p 93-94</ref>16 KB (2,395 words) - 15:34, 25 January 2023
- ...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 C26 KB (3,780 words) - 23:00, 19 February 2023
- {{Short description|1983 film by British comedy group Monty Python}} * Celandine Films29 KB (4,346 words) - 08:46, 18 January 2023
- | birth_place = [[Stockton-on-Tees|Stockton-on-Tees]], [[County Durham|County Durham]], England Hay was born at 23 Durham Street in [[Stockton-on-Tees|Stockton-on-Tees]], [[County Durham|County Durham]]. He was one of two sons and three d33 KB (5,042 words) - 22:47, 18 March 2023