• The Middle Watch (1940 film)
  ...58 film)|adapted again in 1958]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b05ff97|title=The Middle Watch (1931)}}</ref><ref>http://ww * Mackenzie, S. P. ''British War Films, 1939-1945''. Continuum, 2003.
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• Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick
  ...inment/176719.stm | work=BBC News | title=The carry on behind the Carry On films | date=21 September 1998 | accessdate=30 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| In 2000, Johnson adapted the play for television as ''[[Cor, Blimey!]]''.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news
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• Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse
  ...e herself. It is the only one of the nine Rosie Dixon novels to be adapted into a movie. The character of Penny Sutton&nbsp;– Rosie's best friend in the ...ong with her sister [[Leslie Ash]] (later a TV star in her own right), who plays Rosie's sister Natalie.
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• Badjelly the Witch
  ...ke Milligan]], created for his children, then printed in 1973. It was made into an audio and a video version. ...], Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand. Tim Bray adapted and directed the book into a stage play and included The Goons' 'Ying Tong' song along with Monty Pyth
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• Rising Damp (film)
  ..., adapted from [[Eric Chappell]]'s stage play ''The Banana Box''. Chappell adapted the play to television, and wrote the [[screenplay]] for this [[feature fil [[Leonard Rossiter]] plays Rupert Rigsby, the middle-aged landlord of a decrepit townhouse. Rigsby has
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• The Farmer's Wife (1941 film)
  ...ay)|The Farmer's Wife]]'' by [[Eden Phillpotts]] which had previously been adapted by [[Alfred Hitchcock]] for a 1928 [[The Farmer's Wife|film of the same nam * Strauss, Marc Raymond. ''Alfred Hitchcock's Silent Films''. McFarland, 2015.
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• Meet Me Tonight
  | based_on = three plays from ''[[Tonight at 8.30]]'' by Noël Coward ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127222059/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b02e23d|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 November 2016|title
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• Lock Up Your Daughters (1969 film)
  ...ghters]]''<br>based on play ''[[Rape upon Rape]]''by [[Henry Fielding]]<br>adapted by [[Bernard Miles]]<br>music by [[Laurie Johnson]] lyrics by [[Lionel Bart | studio = Domino Films
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• Not Now, Darling (film)
  ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002210041/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b1bbc35|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 October 2017|title=N ...hillips and Joan Sims are unable, in the circumstances, to inject any pace into the proceedings"<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1973 |title=Not Now, Da
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• Appointment with Fear (radio)
  ...tablished writers. Many of the stories in the early series were written or adapted by [[John Dickson Carr]].<ref name="awf">{{cite web|url=http://www.oocities *'The Pit and the Pendulum', adapted by [[John Dickson Carr]] from [[Edgar Allan Poe]], 18 September 1943
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• The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
  ...seph McGrath]]. The screenplay by [[Alec Coppel]] and [[Denis Norden]] was adapted from a play by Coppel that was based on a [[short story]] by [[Josef Shafte ...t Ambrose saves the day by passing along stock tips that turn his employer into a millionaire. The grateful Mr. Blossom, announcing his intention to devote
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• The Ghost Train (play)
  ...a railway scenario in constrained circumstances" thrillers, leading to the films such as ''[[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1938), ''[ ...munist]] revolutionaries to smuggle machine guns from the [[Soviet Union]] into England, and the story of the "ghost-train" has been concocted to scare pot
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• Otley (film)
  | studio = Highroad Productions<br>Bruce Cohn Curtis Films, Ltd. ...ms-tv-people/4ce2b6b25ac56|title=Otley (1968)|publisher=BFI}}</ref> It was adapted by [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]] from a book by [[Martin Waddell]
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• The Green Man (film)
  ...ebsite=theatricalia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ab8fe3d|title=The Green Man (1956)|website=BFI}}</ref> ...illiam and Ann then face another moment of horror as the "corpse" staggers into the house through the French doors and, before collapsing again, tells them
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• Miranda (1948 film)
  ...lackmore, who also wrote the play of the same name from which the film was adapted. The film stars [[Glynis Johns]], [[Googie Withers]], [[Griffith Jones (act ...e "patient". He selects Nurse Carey for her eccentric nature and takes her into his confidence. To Paul's relief, Carey is delighted to be working for a me
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• Philip Stainton
  ...e postwar years he worked steadily in bit and featured parts in theatrical films; twice being directed by [[John Ford]] and once by [[John Huston]] when the ...ed to Australia in the late 1950s to appear in a series of live television plays as the medium was beginning in that country. From 1957 to 1959 he had the d
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• The Man in the White Suit
  ...er Mackendrick]]. The film was nominated for an [[w:Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Academy Award for Best Writing (Screenplay)]] for [[w:Roger MacD ...ile industry out of business. The managers try to trick and bribe Stratton into signing away the rights to his invention but he refuses. Managers and worke
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• A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)
  *[[Mirisch Films]]}} ...ibdb.com/production.asp?id=2887 A Shot in the Dark]'' by Marcel Achard and adapted by Harry Kurnitz had a 1961-1962 [[Broadway theater|Broadway]] run, directe
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• Harold Bennett
  ...peared in ''[[Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton]]'' (1965), and in several films, including as a photographer in ''[[Games That Lovers Play (film)|Games Tha | 1965 || ''[[The Nigel Barton Plays|Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton]]'' || Old man || TV play by [[Dennis Pot
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• Alan Melville (writer)
  ...34: ASIN: B00E7BZG7K</ref> which was accepted and published and later made into a film called ''[[Hot Ice (1952 film)|Hot Ice]]''.<ref>[https://www.imdb.co .... After its success, he was signed up on a five-year contract for [[London Films]] by [[Alexander Korda]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578459/ IMDB]</
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