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- '''''Lightning Conductor''''' is a 1938 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Maurice Elvey]] and starring [[Gordon Har ...ickson|work=AllMovie}}</ref> and ''[[TV Guide]]'' called it "a suspenseful comedy with some good3 KB (387 words) - 17:04, 25 February 2023
- | name = The Spy with a Cold Nose | image = The Spy with a Cold Nose.jpg5 KB (578 words) - 12:42, 24 January 2023
- '''''Luck of the Navy''''' is a 1938 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Norman Lee]] and starring [[Geoffrey Toon With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.3 KB (395 words) - 23:22, 7 February 2023
- | genre = Comedy ...of [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]], it is a parody of various spy films and series.3 KB (246 words) - 11:10, 21 February 2023
- ...t''''' is a 1940 British [[musical film|musical]] [[comedy film|comedy]] [[spy film]] directed by [[Maurice Elvey]] and starring [[Jack Hulbert]], [[Cicel ...neidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/3ds/unde5 KB (746 words) - 16:11, 29 September 2024
- ...5904/http://www.ebay.com/itm/SPYLARKS-Eric-Morecambe-Ernie-Wise-MI5-UK-SPY-COMEDY-Vintage-US-Movie-Flyer-/311389748652 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is subtit ...ilm was successful enough to enable Morecambe and Wise to make two further films, ''[[That Riviera Touch]]'' and ''[[The Magnificent Two]]''.5 KB (711 words) - 22:46, 15 March 2023
- ...America as '''''Bang! Bang! You're Dead!''''') is a 1966 British comedy [[spy film]] shot in Morocco produced and co-written by [[Harry Alan Towers]], d ...imself at the centre of the situation and, assisted by an attractive super-spy, must set out to clear his name.6 KB (823 words) - 16:06, 29 September 2024
- | studio = [[Virgin Films]]<br>[[David Paradine|David Paradine Productions]] ...ntadick (1972) |work=BFI |accessdate=24 October 2015}}</ref> It is a spoof spy/detective picture, the plot of which involves attempts to protect a new exp4 KB (470 words) - 08:55, 3 February 2023
- '''''The Ghost of St. Michael's''''' is a 1941 British [[comedy]]-[[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] film, produced by [[Ealing Studios]]. ...[Charles Hawtrey (actor born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]]). A [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[spy]] ring proves to be behind the killings, and is defeated by a British agent4 KB (617 words) - 13:07, 31 January 2023
- ...he UK by [[Associated British Film Distributors|ABFD]]. This was the first comedy from this studio to deal directly with the [[World War II|Second World War] [[Category:1940 films]]7 KB (997 words) - 09:04, 31 January 2023
- | name = To Catch a Spy | based_on = ''[[Catch Me a Spy]]'' by George Marton & [[Tibor Méray]]10 KB (1,533 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- ...onald Adam (actor)|Ronald Adam]]. The film is an adaptation of the 1934 [[Spy fiction|espionage novel]] ''[[The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent]]'' b ''Halliwell's Film & Video Guide'' described the film as "[quite an] engaging comedy-thriller in the Hitchcock mould, with entertaining performances and inciden6 KB (871 words) - 14:01, 5 February 2023
- ...2014-03-30}}</ref> A sanitation inspector is mistaken for an international spy. It was shot at the [[Elstree Studios]] of [[Associated British Picture Cor [[Category:1952 films]]6 KB (935 words) - 18:57, 21 August 2024
- ...film spin-off from the television series ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' (the previous films being ''[[Up the Chastity Belt]]'' set in the Middle Ages which followed on ...s into the hands of General Burke, he is confronted by the sensuous German spy [[Mata Hari]]. After foiling Mata Hari's scheme to relieve him of the plan,5 KB (758 words) - 20:27, 8 February 2023
- | studio = Highroad Productions<br>Bruce Cohn Curtis Films, Ltd. ...urtenay]] and [[Romy Schneider]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b25ac56|title=Otley (1968)|publisher=BFI}}</ref> It was ada7 KB (953 words) - 19:44, 20 August 2024
- ...earden]]. It is a comedy of mistaken identity, with Hay acting as a German spy and also an Englishman who is his double. It was the film debut of [[Peter ...ave just captured. Potts is flown into [[Nazi Germany]] to impersonate the spy and instructed to seek out and bring back details of a new German secret we6 KB (969 words) - 15:30, 19 February 2023
- '''''Where the Spies Are''''' is a 1966 British comedy adventure film directed by [[Val Guest]] and starring [[David Niven]], [[Fr Stanilaus, the top Russian spy in the region, smuggles him aboard the "Dove of Peace", a jet returning to7 KB (1,072 words) - 13:04, 31 January 2023
- | gross = $1,750,000 (US/Canada rentals)<ref>"Big Rental Films of 1969", ''Variety'', 7 January 1970 p 15</ref> '''''Salt and Pepper''''' is a 1968 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Richard Donner]] and starring [[Sammy Davis Jr.]], [[P9 KB (1,242 words) - 15:24, 14 March 2023
- ...=2014-03-01}}</ref> It is the second in the [[Old Mother Riley]] series of films, and is also known by its re-release title, ''Old Mother Riley Catches a Qu ...meanwhile become involved with a suspicious young Parisian lady (really a spy with code name "Madame Zero", who believes he is an English agent).6 KB (976 words) - 23:31, 8 February 2023
- | studio = Not Now Films ([[Independent film|Independent]]) ...Darling]]'' (1973), and was the second in an intended series of "Not Now" films, with ''Not Now, Prime Minister'' pencilled in as a follow-up. But box offi7 KB (1,046 words) - 08:08, 17 September 2024