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- | distributor = [[w:Eros Films|Eros Films]] ...Studios]] near [[w:London|London]] and distributed by [[w:Eros Films|Eros Films]].3 KB (447 words) - 08:56, 26 December 2022
- '''''The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn''''' is a 30-minute comedy film starring [[Peter Sellers]], [[Spike Milligan]] and [[Dick Emery]]. Th ...y-on-prisoners-of-war-at-the.html|title=Screen: British 'Coming-Out Party':Comedy on Prisoners of War at the Plaza|first=Bosley|last=Crowther|date=31 July 195 KB (641 words) - 23:08, 15 February 2023
- ...[[Terry-Thomas]] as her husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b8a5c63|title=Too Many Crooks (1959)|publisher=}}</ref> ...owther|Bosley Crowther]] described the film as "a good, crazy, brisk farce comedy."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=980DE5DC1E3F6 KB (970 words) - 14:07, 23 November 2022
- ...= A Paul Soskin Production<br>[[British Lion Film Corporation|British Lion Films Limited]] '''''Law and Disorder''''' is a 1958 British [[crime comedy film]] directed by [[Charles Crichton]] and starring [[Michael Redgrave]],8 KB (1,285 words) - 09:01, 31 January 2023
- | distributor = [[Eros Films]] ...]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-8445-7319-6 |location=London |pages=52}}</ref> [[comedy film]] directed by [[Maclean Rogers]] and starring [[Bill Owen (actor)|Bill5 KB (751 words) - 19:22, 6 August 2024
- ...]] and [[Joan Sims]] also appear.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b13878b|title=The Naked Truth (1957)|publisher=www.bfi.org. ...again. That attempt also fails, but Dennis is then arrested for an earlier crime.6 KB (855 words) - 18:57, 21 August 2024
- | distributor = [[Eros Films]] '''''The Runaway Bus''''' is a 1954 British [[comedy film]] produced, written, and directed by [[Val Guest]]. It stars [[Frankie9 KB (1,337 words) - 12:40, 9 February 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
- '''''The Big Money''''' is a 1958 [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[John Paddy Carstairs]] and starring [[Ian Carmichael]] ...e it a promising start" but that "very soon it descended into the broadest comedy cliches." He complained to the producer and director who did not share his9 KB (1,373 words) - 16:34, 12 April 2023
- ...''''' is a 1956 British slapstick black and white [[Ealing Comedies|comedy crime film]] directed by [[Basil Dearden]] and starring [[Benny Hill]], [[Belinda It was one of the last films shot at Ealing Studios and also one of the last Ealing movies distributed b6 KB (961 words) - 17:59, 10 March 2023
- '''''The Lavender Hill Mob''''' is a 1951 [[comedy film]] from [[Ealing Studios]], written by [[T. E. B. Clarke]], directed by ...e web|date=2012-04-22|title=USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Vatican Best Films List|url=http://old.usccb.org/movies/vaticanfilms.shtml|access-date=2021-0613 KB (1,974 words) - 10:28, 12 March 2023
- {{short description|1955 crime comedy film directed by Alexander Mackendrick}} '''''The Ladykillers''''' is a 1955 British [[black comedy]] [[crime film]] directed by [[Alexander Mackendrick]] for [[Ealing Studios]]. It sta15 KB (2,091 words) - 11:58, 12 December 2022
- '''''Laughter in Paradise''''' is a British comedy film released in 1951. The film stars [[Alastair Sim]], [[Fay Compton]], [[ Law-abiding retired army officer Deniston Russell, who writes lurid crime novels under several fictional names, has within a week to get himself arre9 KB (1,334 words) - 00:29, 5 February 2023
- ...V with ''The Dave King Show''<ref name="Leigh"/> which was song, dance and comedy with famous guests of the day. King scored four hits on the [[UK Singles Chart]] in the middle of the 1950s. The biggest were "[[Memories Are Made of This]] (No. 5, 1956) and "You Can9 KB (1,243 words) - 22:40, 15 March 2023
- | studio = [[London Films]] <br> Individual Pictures | distributor = [[British Lion Films]]11 KB (1,708 words) - 11:36, 11 February 2023
- | occupation = Comedy actor ...n (film series)|Carry On]]'' films, although he only appeared in the early films in the series, apart from returning for ''[[Carry On Emmannuelle]]'' in 1979 KB (1,419 words) - 11:56, 18 February 2023
- ...ough some sources list ''[[Davy (film)|Davy]]'' (1958) as the final Ealing comedy.<ref>http://www.britmovie.co.uk/studios/Ealing-Studios {{Webarchive|url=htt ...little in common with the later Ealing comedy films. Ealing made no comedy films at all in 1945 and 1946.<ref name="auto">Murphy p.211</ref>12 KB (1,827 words) - 20:19, 10 March 2023
- | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] {{small|(UK)}} ...effries]] and [[Richard Wattis]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a5e2838|title=Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1958)}}</r11 KB (1,693 words) - 10:58, 20 February 2023
- ...-449-8 |url-access=registration }}</ref> For his final film, the acclaimed comedy ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' (1988), Crichton was nominated for both the [[w ...y films, such as ''[[Things to Come]]'' (1936).<ref name=guardian2/> Other films he edited included those that were produced by [[Alexander Korda]], such as14 KB (2,069 words) - 23:33, 3 February 2023
- She was featured in many radio and television comedy shows between 1940 and 1996, including ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'', ''[[Ray Hayes was cast in supporting roles for films including ''[[The Bargee|The Bargee]]'' (1964), ''[[The NeverEnding Story (10 KB (1,395 words) - 19:58, 18 July 2024