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  • ...&#124; up the Creek}}</ref> The Ship, although referred to by a character in the film as a sloop, was ex [[Castle-class corvette]], {{HMS|Berkeley Castl A sequel ''[[Further Up the Creek]]'' was released later in the same year, with [[Frankie Howerd]] replacing Peter Sellers.
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  • | studio = Black Lion Films<br>Witzend Productions | distributor = [[ITC Entertainment|ITC Films]]
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  • ...and [[Norman Bogner]] wrote the script. Some of it was filmed on location in [[Birmingham]], England, partly at [[Birmingham City F.C.]]'s [[St Andrew's ...d celebrity in the country. His stage show involves him appearing on stage in a jail cell with handcuffs, beaten by police, to the horror and sympathy of
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  • ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729201356/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b808b4c|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 July 2016|title=The | gross = $1 million (U.S./ Canada rentals)<ref>"Big Rental Films of 1973", ''Variety'', 9 January 1974, p. 60</ref>
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  • ...'s work, and a classic of its genre. The film had its first public showing in November 1937 and went on general release on 3 January 1938. ...d ramshackle rural [[Northern Ireland|Northern Irish]] [[railway station]] in the (fictitious) town of Buggleskelly, situated on the border with the then
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  • | birth_place = [[Stratford, London|Stratford]], [[Essex|Essex]], England ...er 2007. Retrieved 9 May 2013</ref> and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".<ref name=guardian_batty>Batty D. [https://www.t
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  • | death_place = [[w:Hadleigh, Essex|Hadleigh]], England ...r. He is best known for his role as [[Henry Hook (VC)|Private Henry Hook]] in ''[[Zulu (1964 film)|Zulu]].''
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  • | birth_place = [[Forest Gate|Forest Gate]], [[Essex|Essex]] (now in London), [[England|England]] ...m) still 1.jpg|thumb|right|Neagle with [[Paul Hartman]] and [[Ray Bolger]] in the film [[Sunny (1941 film)|''Sunny'']]]]
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  • * [[Film4 Productions|Channel Four Films]] * [[Working Title Films]]
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  • ...d actor. He was the host of television game shows including ''[[The Golden Shot]]'', ''[[Celebrity Squares]]'', ''[[Family Fortunes]]'' and ''[[Wipeout (Br ...onkhouse-755955.html |date=13 July 2004 |access-date=26 April 2010}}</ref> In a 2015 documentary, it was revealed that Monkhouse and his older brother su
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  • | distributor = [[EMI Films]] ...[[Terry Jones]], and [[Michael Palin]]) and directed by Gilliam and Jones in their feature directorial debuts. It was conceived during the hiatus betwee
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  • ...e and screen|on stage and screen]], especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in ''[[My Fair Lady|My Fair Lady]]''. He was also renowned for his [[Songs and ...recordings of his many monologues. By the 1930s, he was in demand to star in [[variety show|variety]], [[pantomime|pantomime]] and musical comedy, inclu
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  • ...film of the [[Porridge (film)|same name]] based on the series was released in 1979. ...le is a reference to both the traditional breakfast that used to be served in British prisons, and a 1950s British slang term for a prison sentence.<ref
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  • | caption = Mayall in 1999 ...versity]] and was a pioneer of [[w:alternative comedy|alternative comedy]] in the 1980s.
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  • | image = Terry-Thomas in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out.jpg | caption = Terry-Thomas in ''[[Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?]]'' (1968)
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