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- '''''The Ghost of St. Michael's''''' is a 1941 British [[comedy]]-[[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] film, produced by [[Ealing Studios]]. [[Category:1941 films]]4 KB (617 words) - 13:07, 31 January 2023
- '''''Operation Bullshine''''' is a 1959 British colour [[comedy film]] directed by [[Gilbert Gunn]] and starring [[Donald Sinden]], [[Barba ...hat the part was to be played by Ronald Shiner: a nice enough chap but his comedy playing was of the broadest: there would be no chance of anything subtle. M6 KB (833 words) - 08:04, 6 September 2024
- '''''Twenty to One''''' was a British musical comedy first performed in 1935. The musical was a farce set around the world of [[ * Shafer, Stephen C. ''British popular films, 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance''. Routledge, 1997.1 KB (165 words) - 12:28, 23 February 2023
- '''''We Joined the Navy''''' is a 1962 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Wendy Toye]] and starring [[Kenneth More]], [[Lloyd No [[Category:1962 films]]5 KB (663 words) - 10:18, 21 February 2023
- '''''How I Won the War''''' is a 1967 British [[black comedy]] film starring [[Michael Crawford]], [[Jack MacGowran]], [[Roy Kinnear]], ...rrowed themes and dialogue from his surreal and bitterly dark (and banned) anti-war play ''Dingo''. In particular the character of the spectral clown "Juniper"14 KB (2,048 words) - 19:48, 21 August 2024
- | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] (UK)<br />[[Kingsley-International Pictures]] (US) '''''Lucky Jim''''' is a 1957 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[John Boulting]] and starring [[Ian Carmichael]], [[Ter6 KB (848 words) - 11:36, 8 January 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
- '''''Dad's Army''''' is a 1971 British [[War film|war]] [[comedy film]] and the first [[film adaptation]] of the [[BBC Television|BBC televi ...l=https://web.archive.org/web/20140601172853/http://chalfontstgiles.org.uk/films.htm|archive-date=1 June 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>12 KB (1,776 words) - 23:37, 19 February 2023
- ...964 British-American [[black-and-white]] [[romance film|romantic]] [[black comedy]] [[war film]] written by [[Paddy Chayefsky]], produced by [[Martin Ransoho ...tnam War]], the film has since been praised as a "[[Avant-garde|vanguard]] anti-war film."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1184%7C0/Th19 KB (2,788 words) - 10:48, 25 August 2024
- ...film)|Please Sir!]]''. McFee had made his film debut in the 1969 satirical anti-war musical ''[[Oh! What a Lovely War]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imd The ''Please Sir!'' TV series spawned a comedy sequel called ''[[The Fenn Street Gang]]'', which ran from 1971 to 1973. Mc15 KB (2,211 words) - 10:55, 14 December 2022
- ...There Honey Still for Tea?'''" is the third episode of the eighth British comedy series ''[[Dad's Army]]'' that was originally transmitted on Friday, 19 Sep #In this episode, Pike refers to two films: ''[[The Ghost Goes West]]'' (1935), in which an American millionaire trans5 KB (777 words) - 13:07, 5 December 2022
- ...rmy - The Making of a Television Legend''''' by [[Bill Pertwee]], Foreland Films, 1989. {{ISBN|1-872699-28-6}}.<br /> '''''The Best of British Comedy-Dad's Army''''' by [[Richard Webber]]9 KB (1,329 words) - 13:48, 11 March 2023
- '''''Oh! What a Lovely War''''' is a 1969 British comedy musical war film directed by [[Richard Attenborough]] (in his directorial d At the time, [[the Beatles]] were interested in making an anti-war film. At [[Bertrand Russell]]’s suggestion, [[Paul McCartney]] met with t26 KB (4,014 words) - 13:31, 25 August 2024
- ...1930s. While still attending school, he appeared with [[Will Hay]] in the films ''[[Boys Will Be Boys (1935 film)|Boys Will Be Boys]]'' (1935), and ''[[Goo ...me=BFI>{{Cite web|title=Surprise Attack (1951)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6939450c|access-date=14 November 2020|website=[[British Film21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:26, 5 February 2023
- ...=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/11/peter-sellers-spike-milligan-comedy-film-shipwreck-ghost-in-noonday-sun|title=Tantrums and tears: how Peter Sel '''''Ghost in the Noonday Sun''''' is a 1974 British comedy film directed by [[Peter Medak]] starring [[Peter Sellers]], [[Anthony Fran14 KB (2,127 words) - 12:02, 4 August 2024
- ...on during the 1960s.<ref name="Telegraph"/> He played roles in over twenty films, including ''[[The L-Shaped Room]]'' (1962), ''[[Corruption (1968 film)|Cor ...alongside [[Robin Askwith]] in the ''Confessions of ...'' British sex comedy film series as Sidney Noggett between 1974 and 1977.<ref name="Sky">{{cite13 KB (1,884 words) - 07:53, 17 March 2023
- ...of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which ...<ref name="bfi1">{{cite web |title=Ripe Earth |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69d70b54 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=8 Apri27 KB (3,986 words) - 22:27, 24 August 2024
- | studio = Grand Films ...1969 British [[Satire (film and television)|satirical]] [[farce]] [[black comedy film]] directed by [[Joseph McGrath (film director)|Joseph McGrath]] and st16 KB (2,349 words) - 12:56, 19 January 2023
- ...screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films ''[[A Town Like Alice (film)|A Town Like Alice]]'' (1956), ''[[Carve Her Na ...a (1953 film)|The Cruel Sea]]'' (1953) and a better part in the low budget comedy ''[[The Oracle (film)|The Oracle]]'' (1953). She received excellent reviews18 KB (2,707 words) - 20:32, 7 February 2023
- * [[HandMade Films]] | distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] (United States)<br />HandMade Films (United Kingdom)<ref name=bbfc />16 KB (2,306 words) - 12:48, 24 January 2023