• Old Mother Riley in Business
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• Asking for Trouble
  '''''Asking for Trouble''''' is a 1942 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Oswald Mitchell]] and starring [[Max Miller (comedian) * St. Pierre, Paul Matthew. ''Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960: On the Halls on the Screen''. Associated Universit
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• Blitz and Pieces
  {{short description|Military museum in Great Yarmouth, England}} ...and a variety of large [[w:shed|shed]]s. In 2014 the museum was a finalist in [[w:Channel 4|Channel 4]]'s ''[[w:George Clarke's Amazing Spaces|George Cla
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• Hoots Mon! (1940 film)
  '''''Hoots Mon!''''' is a 1940 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Roy William Neill]] and starring [[Max Miller (comedia [[Category:British comedy films]]
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• Time Flies (1944 film)
  '''''Time Flies''''' is a 1944 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Walter Forde]] and starring [[Tommy Handley]], [[Evely A professor invents a time sphere which takes a group of 1940s entertainers to Elizabethan London, where they encounter Queen Elizabeth an
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• It's Not Cricket (1949 film)
  ...wo starring films for Radford and Wayne who appeared as supporting players in ten other films.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090113221428/http://ftv ...:civvy street|civvy street]], they decide to use the "skills" they learned in the army and set up a [[private detective]] agency, "Bright and Early". The
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• Somewhere in Politics
  ...n Politics |publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref> It was the fifth film in the ''Somewhere'' series of films featuring Randle followed by ''[[It's a G ...olitics.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 August 2012 |title=Somewhere in Politics (aka A Full House) |publisher=British Film Institute |accessdate=2
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• School for Randle
  '''''School for Randle''''' is a 1949 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[John E. Blakeley]] and starring [[Frank Randle]], [[Da ...Young and Alec Pleon), 'Flatfoot' tracks her down to a seedy cabaret club. In disguise as a Chinese acrobatic troupe, "The Three Who Flungs", 'Flatfoot'
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• Old Mother Riley at Home
  ...archive-date=23 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is the 11th film in the long-running [[Old Mother Riley]] series. ...Kitty's true love Dan, Mother Riley tracks the runaways and discovers them in a gambling den.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://movies.tvguide.com/old-mother-ri
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• The Bill Hall Trio
  ...y Mulgrew died on 1 August 1985. ''Peace Work'' was published in 1992, and in it Milligan stated that when Johnny Mulgrew died six years ago, the trio ca In an interview with Tony Brown in 1970, Milligan mentioned that Bill Hall and Johnny Mulgrew were already dea
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• My Wife's Family (1941 film)
  '''''My Wife's Family''''' is a 1941 [[UK|British]] domestic [[comedy film]] directed by [[Walter C. Mycroft]] and starring Charles Clapham, [[Jo ...e=2014-06-26}}</ref> and a British [[My Wife's Family (1956 film)|remake]] in 1956.<ref name="allmovie1">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/my-
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• Old Mother Riley Overseas
  ...ublisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date=2009-04-16 |access-date=2014-02-28}}</ref> In the screenplay, [[Old Mother Riley]] relocates to [[Portugal]]. ...she is somehow mistaken for a famous pianist, but arrives in Portugal just in time to prevent her daughter from being kidnapped. She also manages to retr
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• Happidrome (film)
  ...e.<ref>Richards p.275</ref> The film was made at the [[Riverside Studios]] in [[Hammersmith]], and produced by the musical star [[Jack Buchanan]]. The se ...e advertising in a newspaper by announcing that local talent will be cast. In the meantime he acquires two incompetent assistants, Enoch and Rambsbottom,
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• The Ghost of St. Michael's
  '''''The Ghost of St. Michael's''''' is a 1941 British [[comedy]]-[[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] film, produced by [[Ealing Studios]]. ...with comedian [[Claude Hulbert]]. Hay and Hulbert would act together again in ''[[My Learned Friend]]'' two years later.
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• Fraser Hayes Four
  ...r providing musical interludes on the [[w:BBC Radio|BBC Radio]] [[w:comedy|comedy]] programmes ''[[Beyond Our Ken]]'' and ''[[Round the Horne]]''. ...mments by the critics. However, in January 1951, Dennis withdrew, possibly in part due to the financial pressures of maintaining such a group.
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• Sailors Three
  ...ease info''] Linked 2015-10-30</ref>) is a 1940 British [[war film|war]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Walter Forde]] and starring [[Tommy Trinder]], [[Claud ...wise with ''Sailors Three'', following his comic misadventures in the army in ''[[Laugh It Off (1940 film)|Laugh It Off]]'' (dir. [[John Baxter (director
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• Hi Gang! (film)
  '''''Hi Gang!''''' is a 1941 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[Bebe Daniels]], [[Ben L ...ry (Marriott). The final third of the film sees them all travel to England in the mistaken belief that Albert is the son of Lord [[Amersham]].
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• Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
  ...ng-running [[Old Mother Riley]] series. Old Mother Riley inherits a castle in Scotland, but it appears to be haunted. ...h washerwoman ends up turning the tables on the spies, and terrifying them in return.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44900 |archiv
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• Gasbags
  | starring = {{ubl|[[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]|[[Moore Mariott]]|[[Carl Jaffe]]}} ...e/4ce2b6aad71e8|title=Gasbags (1941)}}</ref> The film was a morale-booster in the early part of the [[Second World War]].<ref name=radiotimes/>
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• Easy Money (1948 film)
  ...f four tales about the effect a major win has in four different situations in the post-war period. Written by [[Muriel Box|Muriel]] and [[Sydney Box]], b ...ver won the money, the youngest daughter ([[Petula Clark]]) announces that in fact she forgot to post their entry, and they all regain their previously h
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