• Smokescreen (film)
  {{Short description|1964 British film by Jim O'Connolly}} {{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
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• Brass Monkey (film)
  '''''Brass Monkey''''' is a 1948 British comedy thriller with musical asides, directed by [[Thornton Freeland]]. It stars [[Carroll ...key_1948/ |title=Brass Monkey 1948 &#124; Britmovie &#124; Home of British Films |publisher=Britmovie |date= |accessdate=2014-03-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|u
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• The Jokers
  '''''The Jokers''''' is a 1967 British comedy film written by [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]], and directe ...and his brother David want to do something "big". They decide to commit a crime as a "grand gesture". The brothers take Inge, David's new inamorata, on a t
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• The Runaway Bus
  | distributor = [[Eros Films]] '''''The Runaway Bus''''' is a 1954 British [[comedy film]] produced, written, and directed by [[Val Guest]]. It stars
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• Hue and Cry (film)
  | distributor = {{ubl|[[General Film Distributors|GFD]] (UK)|[[Eagle-Lion Films]] (US)}} '''''Hue and Cry''''' is a 1947 British film directed by [[Charles Crichton]] and starring [[Alastair Sim]], [[Harr
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• The Assassination Bureau
  ...nown as '''''The Assassination Bureau''''' in the United States) is a 1969 British [[Technicolor]] [[black comedy]] [[adventure film]], produced by [[Michael ...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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• The Lavender Hill Mob
  ...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=2021-06 ...e of luxury in [[Rio de Janeiro]], and spends an evening dining out with a British visitor. During their meal, he narrates a story concerning how he changed h
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• Laughter in Paradise
  | distributor = [[Associated British-Pathe]] '''''Laughter in Paradise''''' is a British comedy film released in 1951. The film stars [[Alastair Sim]], [[Fay Compto
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• Val Guest
  | awards = '''[[w:BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay|Best British Screenplay]]'''<br>1961 ''[[w:The Day the Earth Caught Fire|The Day the Ear ...Biography|publisher=BFI Screenonline}} Reprinted from ''Reference Guide to British and Irish Film Directors''</ref>
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• Ralph Thomas
  ...remembered for directing the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series of films. He cast the actor [[James Robertson Justice]] in many of his films. Thomas often worked with the producer [[Betty Box|Betty E. Box]], who was
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• Dennis Price
  ...3)"], BFI screenonline, reprinted from MacFarlane (ed.) ''Encyclopaedia of British Cinema'', London: Methuen/BFI, 2003, p. 534</ref> ...Own]]'' (1945) starring [[James Mason]]. [[British National Films Company|British National]] borrowed him for ''[[The Echo Murders]]'' (1946), a Sexton Blake
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• Ealing comedies
  ...cle Bill]]'' (1957) the last,<ref>Parkinson, David. ''Radio Times Guide to Films 2010'', BBC Worldwide, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-9555886-2-4}}</ref> although some ...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>
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• Cyril Chamberlain
  ...arry On]]'', ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' and ''[[St. Trinian's]]'' films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carryon.org.uk/irregularly_c.htm|title=Carry ...ttps://books.google.com/books?id=qEW5BAAAQBAJ&q=cyril+chamberlain+carry+on+films&pg=PT242|title=Carry-On Actors|isbn=9781908382085|last1=Ross|first1=Andrew|
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• Boulting brothers
  ...of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which ...Earth |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69d70b54 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref> about the village of [[Tha
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• The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
  ...ibutor = [[Warner Bros.]] (through [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]-[[EMI Films|EMI]]-Warner Distributors<ref>{{cite web|title=Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Mach ...as a card from Fu Manchu's organisation, the Si-Fan, has been left at the crime. Sir Roger Avery of the Yard feels this is a job for Fu's nemesis, Sir Deni
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• Arnold Ridley
  | honorific_suffix = [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] | nationality = British
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• Mervyn Johns
  ...sh stage, film and television character actor who became a star of British films during the Second World War. ...worked regularly at [[Ealing Studios]], first with starring roles in such films as ''[[They Knew Mr. Knight (film)|They Knew Mr. Knight]]'' (1946), ''[[The
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• Peggy Mount
  ...nd]]. She became known for playing domineering middle-aged women in plays, films and television shows. ...verything I Ever Wanted'', by Andrew Ross, was published in 2019 by Fantom Films Limited.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fantompublishing.co.uk/product/andr
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• James Booth
  ...ined recruits in the use of the bayonet, he rose to the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] in tank transport. He spent several years ===Warwick Films===
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• Alastair Sim
  |honorific_suffix=[[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...ath in 1976. Starting in 1935, he also appeared in more than fifty British films, including an iconic adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novella ''[[A Christ
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