• Old Mother Riley in Business
  | studio = [[British National Films]] ...es competition from a large [[chain store]] nearby, causing her to declare war on it.
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• King Arthur Was a Gentleman
  ...Was a Gentleman''''' is a 1942 British, [[black-and-white]], [[comedy film|comedy]], [[musical film]], [[film director|directed]] by [[Marcel Varnel]] and st Set during [[World War II]], the plot involves the undersized Arthur joining the army to prove him
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• It's Not Cricket (1949 film)
  ...icket''] at [[BFI Film & TV Database]]</ref> It was also one of the final films made by [[Gainsborough Pictures]] before the studio was merged into the [[R ...an]] is actually wanted [[War crime#London Charter / Nuremberg Trials 1945|war criminal]] Otto Fisch. He vanishes on arrival in England and the two office
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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]]. Typical of comedies made during the war, it has an anti-Nazi plot.
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• Sailors Three
  ...ccidentally find themselves aboard a German ship during the [[Second World War]]. ...wed the popularity of comedy with wartime cinema audiences. Films with the war as a subject were particularly well received, especially those movies showi
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• Laugh It Off (1940 film)
  | studio = [[British National Films]] ...t [[Walton Studios]] starting in November 1939, just after the outbreak of war.<ref>Wood p.100</ref>
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• The Middle Watch (1940 film)
  ...58 film)|adapted again in 1958]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b05ff97|title=The Middle Watch (1931)}}</ref><ref>http://ww This [[comedy film]] features battleship Captain Maitland ([[Jack Buchanan]]) celebrating
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• Gasbags
  | starring = {{ubl|[[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]|[[Moore Mariott]]|[[Carl Jaffe]]}} ...ref> The film was a morale-booster in the early part of the [[Second World War]].<ref name=radiotimes/>
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• Miss London Ltd.
  ..., [[black-and-white]], [[comedy film|comedy]], [[musical film|musical]], [[war film]], [[film director|directed]] by [[Val Guest]] and starring [[Arthur A This musical comedy playing in [[war]]time London, stars [[Arthur Askey]] as Arthur Boden alias Miss London, the
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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 ...uple to adopt a British [[Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II|evacuee]] boy live on air goes wrong and they end up adopting Albert (Mo
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• Give Us the Moon
  '''''Give Us the Moon''''' is a 1944 British [[w:comedy film|comedy film]] directed and written by [[Val Guest]] and starring [[Vic Oliver]], [ ...the son of a millionaire hotel owner, had been a [[RAF]] pilot during the war but, much to the frustration of his hard-working father, he does not want t
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• Easy Money (1948 film)
  ...about the effect a major win has in four different situations in the post-war period. Written by [[Muriel Box|Muriel]] and [[Sydney Box]], based on the p In the first story, a comedy, a content suburban family, headed by [[Jack Warner (actor)|Jack Warner]],
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• A Date with a Dream
  | studio = [[Tempean Films]] ...nd decide to reform their act. This was one of [[Terry-Thomas]]'s earliest films and is reputedly partly based on his own experiences.<ref>{{cite web|url=ht
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• Alan Hume
  | known_for = ''[[Carry On films|Carry On]]'' films<br>''[[w:Return of the Jedi|Return of the Jedi]]'' (1983)<br>''[[w:Octopuss | employer = [[w:Cineguild Productions|Cineguild Productions]] (1940s)
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• Let George Do It!
  ...edy from this studio to deal directly with the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=1 At the beginning of the Second World War, before Germany invaded [[Norway]], a [[banjulele|ukulele]] player in a Bri
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• Old Mother Riley Detective
  | studio = [[British National Films]] ...series. Old Mother Riley investigates the disappearance of food during the war, a serious crime because of [[rationing]].
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• Under Your Hat
  ...der Your Hat''''' is a 1940 British [[musical film|musical]] [[comedy film|comedy]] [[spy film]] directed by [[Maurice Elvey]] and starring [[Jack Hulbert]], ...neidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/3ds/unde
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• It's Hard to Be Good
  | studio = [[Two Cities Films]] ...nd [[Raymond Huntley]].<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ad62e64|title=It&#039;s Hard to Be Good (1948)|website=BFI}
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• A Girl in a Million
  | studio = [[British Lion Films]] ...archive.org/web/20150519165816/http://www.chartersandcaldicott.co.uk/other-films.html |archivedate=19 May 2015 }}</ref>
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• The Black Sheep of Whitehall
  ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310022732/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a55be4c/|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2016|title=' ...hitehall'') is a 1942 British [[black-and-white]] [[comedy film|comedy]] [[war film]], [[film director|directed]] by [[Will Hay]] and [[Basil Dearden]], s
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