• The Ghost of St. Michael's
  '''''The Ghost of St. Michael's''''' is a 1941 British [[comedy]]-[[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] film, produced by [[Ealing Studios]]. [[Category:1941 films]]
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• Twenty to One
  '''''Twenty to One''''' was a British musical comedy first performed in 1935. The musical was a farce set around the world of [[ * Shafer, Stephen C. ''British popular films, 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance''. Routledge, 1997.
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• We Joined the Navy
  '''''We Joined the Navy''''' is a 1962 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Wendy Toye]] and starring [[Kenneth More]], [[Lloyd No [[Category:1962 films]]
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• Lucky Jim (1957 film)
  | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] (UK)<br />[[Kingsley-International Pictures]] (US) '''''Lucky Jim''''' is a 1957 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[John Boulting]] and starring [[Ian Carmichael]], [[Ter
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• Ealing comedies
  ...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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• Dad's Army (1971 film)
  '''''Dad's Army''''' is a 1971 British [[War film|war]] [[comedy film]] and the first [[film adaptation]] of the [[BBC Television|BBC televi ...l=https://web.archive.org/web/20140601172853/http://chalfontstgiles.org.uk/films.htm|archive-date=1 June 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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• The Americanization of Emily
  ...964 British-American [[black-and-white]] [[romance film|romantic]] [[black comedy]] [[war film]] written by [[Paddy Chayefsky]], produced by [[Martin Ransoho ...tnam War]], the film has since been praised as a "[[Avant-garde|vanguard]] anti-war film."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1184%7C0/Th
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• Is There Honey Still for Tea?
  ...There Honey Still for Tea?'''" is the third episode of the eighth British comedy series ''[[Dad's Army]]'' that was originally transmitted on Friday, 19 Sep #In this episode, Pike refers to two films: ''[[The Ghost Goes West]]'' (1935), in which an American millionaire trans
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• Malcolm McFee
  ...film)|Please Sir!]]''. McFee had made his film debut in the 1969 satirical anti-war musical ''[[Oh! What a Lovely War]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imd The ''Please Sir!'' TV series spawned a comedy sequel called ''[[The Fenn Street Gang]]'', which ran from 1971 to 1973. Mc
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• List of Dad's Army books and memorabilia
  ...rmy - The Making of a Television Legend''''' by [[Bill Pertwee]], Foreland Films, 1989. {{ISBN|1-872699-28-6}}.<br /> '''''The Best of British Comedy-Dad's Army''''' by [[Richard Webber]]
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• Oh! What a Lovely War
  '''''Oh! What a Lovely War''''' is a 1969 British comedy musical war film directed by [[Richard Attenborough]] (in his directorial d At the time, [[the Beatles]] were interested in making an anti-war film. At [[Bertrand Russell]]’s suggestion, [[Paul McCartney]] met with t
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• Clive Dunn
  ...1930s. While still attending school, he appeared with [[Will Hay]] in the films ''[[Boys Will Be Boys (1935 film)|Boys Will Be Boys]]'' (1935), and ''[[Goo ...me=BFI>{{Cite web|title=Surprise Attack (1951)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6939450c|access-date=14 November 2020|website=[[British Film
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• Tony Booth (actor)
  ...on during the 1960s.<ref name="Telegraph"/> He played roles in over twenty films, including ''[[The L-Shaped Room]]'' (1962), ''[[Corruption (1968 film)|Cor ...alongside [[Robin Askwith]] in the ''Confessions of&nbsp;...'' British sex comedy film series as Sidney Noggett between 1974 and 1977.<ref name="Sky">{{cite
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• Boulting brothers
  ...of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which ...<ref name="bfi1">{{cite web |title=Ripe Earth |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69d70b54 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=8 Apri
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• The Magic Christian (film)
  | studio = Grand Films ...1969 British [[Satire (film and television)|satirical]] [[farce]] [[black comedy film]] directed by [[Joseph McGrath (film director)|Joseph McGrath]] and st
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• Virginia McKenna
  ...screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films ''[[A Town Like Alice (film)|A Town Like Alice]]'' (1956), ''[[Carve Her Na ...a (1953 film)|The Cruel Sea]]'' (1953) and a better part in the low budget comedy ''[[The Oracle (film)|The Oracle]]'' (1953). She received excellent reviews
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• Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
  * [[HandMade Films]] | distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] (United States)<br />HandMade Films (United Kingdom)<ref name=bbfc />
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• The Family Way
  | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] | gross = $2,225,000 (U.S./Canada)<ref>"Big Rental Films of 1967", ''Variety'', 3 January 1968 p 25. Please note these figures refer
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• Hermione Baddeley
  ...he Unsinkable Molly Brown]]'' (both 1964), although she first began making films back in the 1920s. One of her more important roles was in ''[[Brighton Rock ...The most successful was her teaming with [[Hermione Gingold]] in Coward's comedy ''[[Fallen Angels (play)|Fallen Angels]]'', though the two women were repor
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• Miles Malleson
  ...ochondriac and fee-hungry local doctor. Malleson was also a writer on many films, including some of those in which he had small parts, such as ''[[w:Nell Gw ...6; Miles Malleson: ''Second Thoughts'', nd [1916]</ref> Malleson wrote two anti-war plays, ''"D" Company'' and ''Black 'Ell''. When the plays were published in
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