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  • Mr Roper, an [[insurance investigator]], travels to [[Brighton]] to assess the apparent death of a businessman after his burning car was s ...ch has been a private residence since the [[Cuckoo Line]] ceased operating in 1968.<ref name="DS2017">{{Cite web
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  • The title references a phrase in [[British English]] with its origin in the world of 19th century theatre, where it was customary to hiss like a go ...upulous [[Brighton]] [[antiques dealer]] Cecil Gibson (Ronald Shiner) dies in a road accident, his widow Julie (Dora Bryan) remarries, and her new husban
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  • ...ocated next to the funeral parlour where Dennis works. They hide the money in the coffin of Hal’s mother, who has just died and whose body has been ret ...he has come into money. Inspector Truscott also has a particular interest in Nurse McMahon, he is sure she murdered several of her former husbands, and
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  • | studio = [[Two Cities Films]] ...en Jimmy, one of the boys, sets his heart on a model car which he has seen in a shop window, Norman is determined to raise the money to buy it. But he ca
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  • ...aw]] and [[Peter Butterworth]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a735356|title=Carry On Girls (1974)|website=BFI}}</ref> Thi ...alerie Leon|website=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1820291|title=Jimmy Logan|website=BFI}}</ref>
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  • ...[[Hattie Jacques]] and [[Bernard Bresslaw]]. It features [[Kenneth Cope]] in the first of his two Carry on appearances. ...presentative]] Vic Spanner ([[Kenneth Cope]]) continually stirs up trouble in the works, to the irritation of his co-workers and management. He calls a s
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  • ...publisher=Explore.bfi.org.uk |access-date=2014-06-24}}</ref> However, Rank Films insisted it was not a sequel.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.ne ...der & Stoughton Publ. (1982), pp. 203-4</ref> Filming also took place in [[Brighton]] including at the [[Palace Pier]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[
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  • ...m]] featuring [[Stephen Murray (actor)|Stephen Murray]], [[Kay Walsh]] and in his first starring role [[James Fox]] (then billed as William Fox). The sto ...t. After watching his father board the ferry to his work as a psychologist in Liverpool, he spends the rest of the morning playing on the beach.
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  • | name = Our Man in Havana | image = Our man in Havana (film) poster.jpg
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  • ...as '''''Hotel International''''') is a 1963 British [[comedy-drama]] film in [[Metrocolor]] and [[Panavision]]. It was directed by [[Anthony Asquith]], ...on|very important people]]) of the title play out the drama of their lives in a number of slightly interconnected stories. The delays have caused serious
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  • ..., [[Kenneth More]] and [[Kay Kendall]] as two couples comedically involved in a [[vintage car|veteran automobile]] rally. ...d Peters (Kay Kendall), and her pet [[St. Bernard (dog)|St. Bernard]] ride in a 1905 [[Spyker]].
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  • | place = [[Brighton]] ...Ghost Train''''' is a stage comedy-[[thriller (genre)|thriller]], written in 1923 by the English actor and playwright [[Arnold Ridley]].
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  • ...901 he was a self-employed printer. As a boy, Leslie would help his father in the business. ...]]s" at [[Silloth]], [[Cumberland]]. In 1914 at the end of a summer season in [[Weston-super-Mare]], Fuller married one of his fellow entertainers, the 2
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  • ...own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which they founded in 1937.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/company/co0103294/?ref_=ttco_co_4 IMDb: Cha ...s were born to Arthur Boulting and his wife Rosetta (Rose) ''née'' Bennett in [[Bray, Berkshire|Bray]], [[Berkshire]], England, on 21 December<ref name=o
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  • ...1969 British comedy musical war film directed by [[Richard Attenborough]] (in his directorial debut), with an ensemble cast, including [[Maggie Smith]], ...ffles in partnership with [[Joan Littlewood]] and her [[Theatre Workshop]] in 1963.<ref>Banham (1998, 645), Brockett and Hildy (2003, 493), and Eyre and
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  • | birth_place = [[Kemptown, Brighton|Kemptown]], [[Brighton]], England | death_place = [[Brighton]], England
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  • ...920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s. ...tnership with the comic actor [[Leslie Henson]]. They had an early success in the West End with a long-running farce, ''[[Tons of Money (play)|Tons of Mo
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  • | restingplace = Cremated; ashes buried in [[w:Spinningdale|Spinningdale]], Sutherland, Scotland ...south east [[London]], he exaggerated his Scottish roots but was prominent in Scottish public life, helping to launch [[Scottish Television]] (STV) and s
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  • ...ember 1888 – 27 October 1970) was an English actor and comedian. He worked in film, television and theatre. ...in the comedy ''[[Doctor in the House (TV series)|Doctor in the House]]'' in 1970.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Collins' Music Hall, 10/11 Islington Green, Lond
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  • ...ish character actress.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba246ddb5|title=Noël Dyson|website=BFI}}</ref> ...p opera]] ''[[Coronation Street|Coronation Street]]'' (1960–61), and Nanny in the [[sitcom]] ''[[Father, Dear Father]]'' (1968–73).
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