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  • | studio = [[Walter Shenson]] Films ...ector)|Joseph McGrath]].<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a8db1c9|title=Digby the Biggest Dog in the World (1973)}}</
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  • ...g Oddball - Details |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]] |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=July 31, 2019 }}</ref><br>August 3, 1979 (Los ...Flying Oddball - History |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=July 31, 2019 }}</ref>
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  • ...English-language film. The story concerns an Old World ghost dealing with American materialism. In the 20th century, Peggy Martin, the daughter of a rich American businessman, persuades her father to purchase Glourie Castle from Donald Gl
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  • | studio = [[Warwick Films]] '''''Jazz Boat''''' is a 1960 British black-and-white musical comedy film directed by [[Ken Hughes]] and starring [[Anthony Newley]], [[Anne Aub
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  • '''''Helter Skelter''''' is a 1949 British [[w:romantic comedy|romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Ralph Thomas]] and starring [[Carol Marsh]], [[David T ...nnection with the plot, and are included principally for their stand-alone comedy value. The following are noteworthy:
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  • | 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.]], [[P
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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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  • | studio = Python Films<br />Umbrella Films '''''Jabberwocky''''' is a 1977 British [[fantasy film|fantasy]] [[comedy film]] co-written and directed by [[Terry Gilliam]]. Jabberwocky stars [[Mi
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  • ...8 March 2005) was a British film and television writer, working chiefly in comedy. ...blished television, taking over from radio, as the most popular medium for comedy. A prolific practitioner, he was a master of the [[pun|pun]] and [[double e
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  • ...-02-09 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ycba.yale.edu/programs/programs-films.asp |title= Yale Center for British Art |access-date=9 February 2007 }}</re ''[[Britannia Hospital]]'' (1982) completes the trilogy of films featuring Mick Travis,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.d
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  • {{short description|American filmmaker (1922–2010)}} ...ck comedy]], [[Comedy drama]], [[Musicals]], [[Adventure films]], [[Action films]], [[Sex comedies]], [[Western (genre)|Western]]
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  • ...-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905065924/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Confessions-of-a-Window-Cleaner_1974 |archive-date=5 September 2011 |url-st '''''Confessions of a Window Cleaner''''' is a 1974 British [[sex comedy]] film, directed by [[Val Guest]].<ref name=leach132>Leach, p.132</ref>
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  • ...ef> She trained at [[RADA]] and is most familiar to television viewers for comedy roles in a host of series, including ''[[The Rag Trade]]'', ''[[That's My B |[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
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  • | distributor = [[EMI Films]] ...by the [[Arthurian legend]], written and performed by the [[Monty Python]] comedy group ([[Graham Chapman]], [[John Cleese]], [[Terry Gilliam]], [[Eric Idle]
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  • '''''Oh! What a Lovely War''''' is a 1969 British comedy musical war film directed by [[Richard Attenborough]] (in his directorial d ...iplomatic maneuvering and events involving those in authority are set in a fantasy location inside the pierhead pavilion, far from the trenches. In the openin
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  • ...ian, director, historian, actor, writer and member of the [[Monty Python]] comedy team. ...which he co-directed with Gilliam, and also directed the subsequent Python films ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian|Life of Brian]]'' and ''[[Monty Python's T
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  • ...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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  • ...th Century-Fox Productions Ltd]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b83cf5f|title=Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machine ...London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b83cf5f |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=BFI |language=en}}
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  • ...don, England|date=3 January 1964|page=4}}</ref> Finney received 10% of the films earnings, which made him over $1 million.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Va ...965/ |archive-date=6 April 2019 }}</ref><ref name="guard"/> He returned to films with ''[[Two for the Road (film)|Two for the Road]]'' (1967) co starring [[
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  • |data4 = [[Sketch comedy|Sketch comedy]], [[surreal humour|surreal humour]] ...] from 1970 until 1982, combining [[sketch comedy|sketches]] and situation comedy.
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