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  • ...e does not want to work for a living, and idles his time away while living in his father's hotel (named "[[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] Hotel"). So ...[[S. J. Simon]], but the story was moved from Paris in the 1930s to London in the late 1940s. Brahms and Simon provided additional dialogue to director [
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  • '''''Don't Bother to Knock''''' (released as '''''Why Bother to Knock''''' in the United States) is a 1961 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Cyril Fr ...iced by Bill, Maggie, an American business associate of his, finds his key in his trouser cuff where he had dropped it, but, before returning it, she mak
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  • ...3. Unlike the novel, which is set in the United States, the film is set in Europe. ...er Sonia Winter ([[Diana Rigg]]) uncovers an organisation that specialises in killing for money, the Assassination Bureau Limited. To bring about its des
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  • | studio = Walter Shenson Films ...it, the people of the [[Duchy]] of [[Grand Fenwick]], a [[microstate]] in Europe, attempt space flight using wine as a propellant. It satirises the [[space
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  • ...ions. It was released by [[General Film Distributors]]. It was distributed in America the following year by [[Universal Pictures]]. ...filmed in Spain.<ref>p.90 Mitchell, John ''Flickering Shadows: A Lifetime in Film'' 1997 Harold Martin & Redman</ref> The film's sets were designed by t
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  • ...itle is a parody of the film title ''[[One of Our Aircraft Is Missing]]'', in which both [[Peter Ustinov]] and [[Hugh Burden]] also appeared. The film wa ...large dinosaur skeletons. He is relieved to meet his former nanny, Hettie, in the museum, and asks her to retrieve the microfilm. Southmere then faints a
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  • | studio = [[Mirisch Company]]<br>[[Mirisch Films]] ...[[Mirisch Films]] at the [[MGM-British Studios]], [[Borehamwood]] and in Europe.
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  • The film is set in London on the third or fourth anniversary of a [[w:Nuclear warfare|nuclear ...ée Alan, who then joins their party. It is said that Penelope is pregnant. In search of a nurse, they leave the train taking a trunk so as to not look li
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  • | studio = [[London Films]] | distributor = [[British Lion Films]]
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  • ...(then £5), a variety of English men and women are trapped in [[Stockholm]] in the very expensive country of [[Sweden]]. These include Bumble and her estr ...problem is ultimately resolved by a Swedish citizen offering accommodation in return for a reciprocal arrangement when he visits Britain. Meanwhile the v
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  • ...iously imitating Danvers-Walker's "perky tone" in a cod "newsreel" segment in his 2000 film ''[[w:Love's Labour's Lost (film)|Love's Labour's Lost]]''.<r ...e]], in 1925, moving on briefly to [[w:ABC Radio National|2FC]] in Sydney, in 1932, before returning to the United Kingdom the same year.<ref name="ODNB"
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  • | studio = Marianne Productions<br>Basil Keys Productions<br>Les Films Concordia<br>Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica | gross = $1,125,000 (US/ Canada rentals)<ref>"Big Rental Films of 1969". ''Variety'', 7 January 1970, p. 15.</ref>
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  • ...he Mouse That Roared (1959)|publisher=}}</ref> It stars [[Peter Sellers]] in three roles: Duchess Gloriana XII; Count Rupert Mountjoy, the Prime Ministe ...ail]] books passage across the Atlantic on a small merchant ship, arriving in [[w:New York Harbor|New York Harbour]] during an air-raid drill that leaves
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  • * [[HandMade Films]] | distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] (United States)<br />HandMade Films (United Kingdom)<ref name=bbfc />
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  • ...in ''Man About the House'' and moving to a modern, upmarket housing estate in [[Hampton Wick|Hampton Wick]]. Their arrival horrifies their snobbish neigh ...m]]. The movie was dedicated to actress [[Yootha Joyce]] who died suddenly in August 1980, just as the cast were about to film a sixth and final series.
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  • ...re, film, and television. She was a well-known actress and star of British films during the [[Second World War]] and postwar years. ...Walls|Within These Walls]]'' during the 1970s and continued to feature in films.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/arts/googie-withers
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  • ...1969 British comedy musical war film directed by [[Richard Attenborough]] (in his directorial debut), with an ensemble cast, including [[Maggie Smith]], ...ffles in partnership with [[Joan Littlewood]] and her [[Theatre Workshop]] in 1963.<ref>Banham (1998, 645), Brockett and Hildy (2003, 493), and Eyre and
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  • ...ast]] comedies, [[Adventure films|Adventure films]], [[Action films|Action films]] ...ge-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Battle of the Bulge (1965 film)|Battle of th
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  • ...bruary 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor, mainly known for his work in television. ...''[[First of the Summer Wine]]''. Although Sallis was born and brought up in London, the characters of Wallace and Clegg were both [[w:Northern England|
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  • ...h_place = [[Ozeriany, Borshchiv Hromada|Jezierzany]], [[Galicia (eastern Europe)|Galicia]], [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] ...''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]''. At 85 he played Professor [[Herbert Marcuse]] in the Coen Brothers' film ''[[Hail, Caesar!]]'' (2016).
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