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  • '''''Invasion Quartet''''' is a 1961 British World War II [[comedy-drama film]] that was publicised as a parody of ''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|T * [[Alexander Archdale]] as Brigadier, War Office
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  • | studio = High Road Productions<br>Open Road Films '''''The Virgin Soldiers''''' is a 1969 British [[war film|war]] [[comedy-drama]] film directed by [[John Dexter]] and starring [[Lynn Redgrave]], [[Hywel
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  • | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] (UK) '''''Joey Boy''''' is a 1965 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[war film]] directed by [[Frank Launder]] and starring [[Harry H. Corbett]], [[S
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  • | distributor = Regal Films International {{small|(UK)}} ...|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6951bfc6 |title=Operation Snatch (1962) |website=[[BFI]] |ac
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  • |studio = Covent Garden Films |distributor = [[British Lion Films]]
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  • | known_for = ''[[Carry On films|Carry On]]'' films<br>''[[w:Return of the Jedi|Return of the Jedi]]'' (1983)<br>''[[w:Octopuss ...r of photography for the successful ''[[Carry On films|Carry On]]'' comedy films, beginning with 1961's ''[[Carry On Regardless]]''; eventually, Hume altern
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  • '''''Hannibal Brooks''''' is a 1969 British [[War film|war]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Michael Winner]] and written by [[Ian La Fr ...hage|Carthaginian]] military commander [[Hannibal]] who led an army with [[war elephant]]s over the [[Alps]].
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  • | distributor = [[British Lion Films|British Lion]] ...an Ferry Ann (1965)|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://mubi.com/films/san-ferry-ann|title=San Ferry Ann|publisher=}}</ref> Wordlessly, with sound
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  • ...ld essay later in his career."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Radio Times Guide to Films |publisher=[[Immediate Media Company]] |year=2017 |isbn=9780992936440 |edit ...st meritorious British [[B movie|B films]] made between the [[Second World War]] and 1970. They describe it as an "uncommonly neat little insurance racket
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  • | 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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  • ...ilm was successful enough to enable Morecambe and Wise to make two further films, ''[[That Riviera Touch]]'' and ''[[The Magnificent Two]]''. ...ation known as "SCHLECHT" (a parody of [[SPECTRE]] from the [[James Bond]] films; the word is German for "bad" or "evil", although there is little evidence
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  • ...London on the third or fourth anniversary of a [[w:Nuclear warfare|nuclear war]] that lasted two minutes and twenty-eight seconds, including signing the p ...|National Health Service]]", a male nurse overwhelmed by the extent of the war's aftermath.
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  • ...at a Winner]]'' by [[R.F. Delderfield]] who served in the [[RAF]] in World War II. ...he is working in the [[black market]] only while waiting to enlist in the war effort. On hearing this plea, the magistrate calls his bluff and forces him
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  • | studio = Walter Shenson Films ...flight using wine as a propellant. It satirises the [[space race]], [[Cold War]] and [[politics]].
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  • ...and [[James Robertson Justice]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b280548|title=A Pair of Briefs (1962)|website=BFI}}</ref> T ...r her client, a woman whose marriage was disrupted by [[World War II|World War II]], with the registration office and its record of the marriage destroyed
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  • | studio = Associated London Films ...to Alf and Else'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 dru
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  • ...ettled in [[w:London|London]] during the [[w:Second World War|Second World War]] and featured with [[Vic Oliver]] in the radio series'' [[Hi Gang! (radio ==Films==
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  • ...xter]] in a dual role as a dour Scottish prisoner and a German prisoner-of-war camp officer, [[Eric Sykes]], [[John Le Mesurier]], [[Leslie Phillips]] and ...of very important aircraft research during the [[World War II|Second World War]]. He needs to take a trip on a bomber to gain first-hand knowledge of the
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  • ...development of [[BBC Television]] when it restarted after the Second World War. ...fter repertory work, he served in the armed forces during the Second World War.<ref name=ww/>
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  • ...gs, emperors, and prime ministers of Europe are trying to avoid a possible war over the assassination of a [[Balkan]] prince who had accidentally been kil ...t with exhibitors and eventually television networks buying batches of our films, by virtue of stars or production value". He added that in the case of ''As
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