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  • ...was directed by [[Henry Cornelius]] and made at the [[Riverside Studios]] in [[Hammersmith]]. The film's sets were designed by [[Norman Arnold]]. ...in a [[London]] suburb form a [[syndicate]] to buy a [[race horse]] to run in the [[Grand National]].
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  • '''''Always a Bride''''' is a 1953 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Ralph Smart]] and starring [[Peggy Cummins]], ...s a newly married couple. Trouble begins, however, when the daughter falls in love with a tax investigator.
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  • '''''The Body Said No!''''' is a 1950 British [[w:crime comedy|crime comedy]] film directed by [[Val Guest]] and starring In a British TV studio, Michael Rennie (as himself) is performing live in a dramatic broadcast. On a neighbouring set, cabaret singer Mikki Brent thi
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  • | name = Brothers in Law | based_on = {{Based on|''Brothers in Law''|[[Henry Cecil Leon|Henry Cecil]]}}
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  • | distributor = [[Associated British-Pathé]] (UK) '''''You're Only Young Twice''''' is a 1952 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Terry Bishop]] and starring [[Duncan Macrae (
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  • | caption = Original British 1952 [[Film poster#Film poster sizes|quad film poster]] ...Papers'' goes into the programme at the Gaumont Cinema to-morrow." – Found in The Times Digital Archive 2013-12-06</ref>}}
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  • ...ted by [[John Paddy Carstairs]] and starring [[Norman Wisdom]] as a worker in a jewellery shop.<ref name="Innes">{{cite web|last=Innes|first=John|url=htt ...and is innocently preoccupied with dreaming of meeting the window dresser in the shop across the street from his workplace. He wishes to purchase a diam
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  • | cinematography = [[Ernest Palmer (British cinematographer)|Ernest Palmer]] ...gh made on a low-budget, the film often topped [[double bill]]s at cinemas in the [[Northern England|North of England]] because of the popularity of the
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  • | caption = Original British quad poster | studio = [[Associated British Picture Corporation]]
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  • ...omedy Guide}}</ref> A group of [[ENSA]] entertainers with the British army in the North Africa desert during the Second World War thwart a Nazi plan.<ref ...inging their words to the well-known tune some in the audience are singing in German, exposing them as spies.
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  • | distributor = [[British Lion Film Corporation|British Lion]] {{small|(UK)}} '''''Fun at St. Fanny's''''' is a 1955 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Maurice Elvey]] and starring [[Fred Emney]],
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  • | caption = British quad poster | distributor = [[w:British Lion Films|British Lion Films]]
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  • ...//www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/591011/|title=BFI Screenonline: Laughter in Paradise (1951)|publisher=}}</ref> ...=Harper|first1=Sue|last2=Porter|first2=Vincent|title=British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|page=
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  • ...</ref> The film opened on 26 November 1953 at the Haymarket Gaumont cinema in London.<ref name="Art & Hue" /> ...kes people act out of character, with visible encouragement from the Devil in human form.
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  • | caption = UK cinema poster | distributor = [[British Lion Films]]
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  • | caption = Original British 1-sheet poster ...{cite web|url=https://historyproject.org.uk/interview/hugh-stewart|website=British Entertainment History Project|title=Hugh Stewart|date=22 Nov 1989}}</ref>
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  • ...Sims]], [[John Le Mesurier]], [[Richard Wattis]] and [[Reginald Beckwith]] in leading supporting roles. After serving all his working life with the South Star line, exclusively in cargo ships, Captain Albert Ebbs meets his employer ([[John le Mesurier]])
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  • | studio = British Film-Makers Ltd. ...ite=Radio Times}}</ref> The film was released as '''''Tonight at 8:30''''' in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/tonight-at-830-v
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  • ...trie|first= Duncan James |year=2017|title= Bryanston Films : An Experiment in Cooperative Independent Production and Distribution|journal= Historical Jou ...mport}}</ref> it was adapted by [[Monja Danischewsky]]. A timid accountant in a Scottish Tweed weaving company cleverly bests a brash modern American eff
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  • {{Short description|British scriptwriter and lyricist}} | nationality = British
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