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  • ...host of St. Michael's''''' is a 1941 British [[comedy]]-[[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] film, produced by [[Ealing Studios]]. [[Category:1941 films]]
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  • '''''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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  • | studio =Excelsior Films '''''They Met in the Dark''''' is a 1943 British [[comedy]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Karel Lamač]] and starring [[James Mason]], [[Joyce H
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  • ...et's Get Laid''''', also known as '''''Love Trap''''', is a 1978 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[James Kenelm Clarke]] and starring [[Robin Askwith]], ...stars, that patrons of ''Let's Get Laid!'' will be expecting a lame comedy-thriller shakily set in the late Forties (although its material more properly belong
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  • '''''The Ghost Train''''' is a 1941 British mystery thriller film directed by [[Walter Forde]] based on the [[The Ghost Train (play)|192 ''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' described it as "a classy thriller:.<ref>Ghost Train, ''The Monthly Film Bulletin''; London Vol. 8, Iss. 85,
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  • | distributor = {{ubl|[[General Film Distributors|GFD]] (UK)|[[Eagle-Lion Films]] (US)}} ...first of the [[Ealing comedies]], although it is better characterised as a thriller for children. Shot almost entirely on location, it is now a notable histori
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  • .... He directed films with comedians such as [[Will Hay]], the [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|Crazy Gang]] and [[Arthur Askey]] and several of the [[Gainsborough Crabtree did some films for [[Michael Powell]], ''[[Lazybones (1935 film)|Lazybones]]'' (1935) and
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  • ...his work for [[w:Hammer Film Productions|Hammer]], for whom he directed 14 films, and [[w:science fiction film]|]s. He enjoyed a long career in the film ind ...n]]'' (1936); ''[[O-Kay for Sound]]'' (1937) for Varnel with [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]; ''[[Alf's Button Afloat]]'' (1938) with Flanagan a
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  • ...ed in many [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British films]] of the 1930s and 1940s. ...ngside [[Naunton Wayne]] as two [[cricket]]-obsessed Englishmen in several films from 1938 to 1949.
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  • ...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>
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  • ...best remembered for numerous appearances in films and television from the 1940s to the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f1d2ab0 | ...actress.<ref>{{cite book|author=Howard Maxford|title=Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lfp1DwAAQ
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  • ...ast]] comedies, [[Adventure films|Adventure films]], [[Action films|Action films]] ...60s he was noticed by critics with large-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Battle of
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  • ...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 ...ctor Calls (1954 film)|An Inspector Calls]]'' (1954). Later, he made fewer films and generally concentrated on stage work, including successful productions
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  • ...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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  • ...ho became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, [[Novelty song|comical songs]], ...easingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the late 1930s and 1940s, and became the UK's most popular entertainer during those decades. The med
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