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  • | image = "Old Mother Riley at Home" (1945).jpg | studio = [[British National Films]]
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  • | image = "I_Didn't_Do_It"_(1945).jpg | released = 6 August 1945 (UK)
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  • | image = 29_Acacia_Avenue_(1945).jpg ...tributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] Corporation (United Kingdom)<br>Oxford Films (United States)
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  • ...previously filmed by [[Edward Small]] in [[Brewster's Millions (1945 film)|1945]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite news |title=Three on a Spree |author=Eugene Archer | [[Category:1961 films]]
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  • ...J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 321.</ref><ref name="icon">Alexander Wal [[Category:1985 films]]
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  • ...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 * Mackenzie, S. P. ''British War Films, 1939-1945''. Continuum, 2003.
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  • ...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 ...|batman]] is actually wanted [[War crime#London Charter / Nuremberg Trials 1945|war criminal]] Otto Fisch. He vanishes on arrival in England and the two of
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  • | fate = [[Mergers and acquisitions|Absorbed]] into [[EMI Films]] | foundation = 1945 <!-- City, Country ({{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}}) -->
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  • ...for his career in the United States and England as a director of plays and films ...n moving in 1936 to [[Gainsborough Pictures]] – where he produced his best films. Among the performers he worked with were [[Will Hay]], [[Crazy Gang (comed
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  • ...; and ''[[Give Us the Moon]]'' (1944) and ''[[I'll Be Your Sweetheart]]'' (1945), opposite [[Margaret Lockwood]]. Other roles included the lead in ''[[Spri ...Lilacs in the Spring]]'' (1954).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba93e0162|title=Peter Graves|website=BFI}}</ref> He also appe
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  • ...rty years including many of the [[Aldwych Farces]] films, and [[Will Hay]] films such as ''[[Boys Will Be Boys (1935 film)|Boys Will Be Boys]]''. ...of his career he edited the [[Carry On (film series)|Carry On]] series of films alongside the director, [[Gerald Thomas]]. He retired in 1975 after editing
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  • ...|John Darling]] in ''Peter Pan''.<ref name=screenonline/> He began to make films in his teens.<ref name=britishpictures>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishpic ...and the Huggetts films.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f390ab7|title=Jimmy Hanley|website=BFI}}</ref> He later wor
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  • | distributor = [[Gainsborough Studios]]<br />Ellis Films (US) ...1945-c22731925&usg=ALkJrhiPuUc4vZGBcb7OUARBcpu2dF_c5A French box office in 1945] at Box office story</ref>
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  • ...haracter actor who featured in many [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British films]] of the 1930s and 1940s. ...ngside [[Naunton Wayne]] as two [[cricket]]-obsessed Englishmen in several films from 1938 to 1949.
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  • ...land) was a British [[cinematographer]] and [[film director]]. He directed films with comedians such as [[Will Hay]], the [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|Crazy Crabtree did some films for [[Michael Powell]], ''[[Lazybones (1935 film)|Lazybones]]'' (1935) and
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  • ...ouple played music halls, theatres, and broadcast on radio and appeared in films. Lucan was voted sixth biggest British box-office star by the ''[[Motion Pi ...ld be a smash hit with audiences and make you a star. The Old Mother Riley films also proved that drag could be an acceptable part of comedy and storytellin
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  • ...eenonline.org.uk}}</ref><ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba17b8221|title=Frank Launder}}</ref> He began working as a screenwriter on British films in the 1930s, contributing the original story for the classic [[Will Hay]]
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  • | studio = Associated London Films ...lse's shock, and they have a baby daughter, Rita, in 1942. The war ends in 1945 with a huge street party and Alf, characteristically, gets drunk.
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  • ...ll p.297</ref> During the 1930s and 1940s he worked on a number of British films. * ''[[I Didn't Do It (film)|I Didn't Do It]]'' (1945)
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  • ...J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 356.</ref> [[Category:1949 films]]
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