• I Only Arsked!
  '''''I Only Arsked!''''' is a 1958 British [[w:comedy film|comedy film]] directed by [[w:Montgomery Tully|Montgomery Tully]] and starring [[B Slapstick ensues when inept army [[w:Military recruitment|recruits]] are transferred
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• The Early Bird
  '''''The Early Bird''''' is a 1965 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Robert Asher (director)|Robert Asher]] and starring [[ Much of the humour centres on classic slapstick comedy, with Norman encountering various comedic escapades. These include being dr
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• It's Your Move (1982 film)
  ...by Sykes, the action unfolds in a style echoing the silent, [[slapstick]] comedy era. [[Category:British comedy short films]]
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• Operation Snatch
  ...ick-gibraltar-is-setting-of-operation.html |title=Screen: Terry-Thomas and Slapstick; Gibraltar Is Setting of 'Operation Snatch' Picture Pits Comedian Against a ...ver to leave, the British would lose [[Gibraltar|Gibraltar]]. This wartime comedy has Terry-Thomas as the keeper of the apes. When one of the apes goes missi
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• Guest House Paradiso
  ...House Paradiso''''' is a 1999 British [[slapstick film|slapstick]] [[black comedy]] film written by and starring comic duo [[Rik Mayall]] and [[Ade Edmondson The film is a [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] of their [[BBC]] comedy television series ''[[Bottom (TV series)|Bottom]]'' (in some territories, t
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• Old Mother Riley, MP
  '''''Old Mother Riley, MP''''' is a 1939 British [[w:comedy film|comedy film]] starring [[Arthur Lucan]] and [[Kitty McShane]], which forms part of ...is a film that is sure to please anyone who appreciates classic [[British comedy]]."<ref name="britmovie1939"/>
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• The Girl on the Boat (film)
  '''''The Girl on the Boat''''' is a 1962 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Henry Kaplan]] and starring [[Norman Wisdom]], [[Milli ...sdom tried something different from his usual slapstick with this seagoing comedy romance ...It doesn't work for Wisdom, though it does for the less mannered
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• The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
  ...'The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film''''' is a 1959 British [[sketch comedy]] [[short film]] directed by [[Richard Lester]] and [[Peter Sellers]], in c ...}}</ref> ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine called it "Sublime slapstick surrealism."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/running
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• Don't Get Me Wrong (film)
  '''''Don't Get Me Wrong''''' is a 1937 British [[comedy film]] co-directed by [[Arthur B. Woods]] and [[Reginald Purdell]] and star ...to steal the formula and try all means to get their hands on it, involving slapstick chases and double-crosses. It then turns out that the miracle fluid is dil
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• The Plank (1967 film)
  ...[Jon Penington]]. The story was based on an episode of Eric Sykes' [[BBC]] comedy series ''[[Sykes and a...]]'' from 1964, called "Sykes and a Plank". The film is a series of "plank jokes" elaborating on the "man with a plank" slapstick routine seen in [[vaudeville]] and silent films, and adding new ones. For i
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• The Plank (1979 film)
  '''''The Plank''''' is a 30-minute, British [[slapstick]] [[comedy film]] for [[television]] from 1979, which was written and directed by [[Er ...d "Sykes and a Plank", which Eric Sykes had written for his BBC television comedy series, ''[[Sykes and a...]]'' in 1964. This 1979 television version won th
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• Bottoms Up (1960 film)
  '''''Bottoms Up''''' is a 1960 British comedy film. It stars [[Jimmy Edwards]] in a spin-off of his TV comedy series ''[[Whack-O!]]'', playing the seedy, alcoholic, [[School corporal pu
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• Fred Karno
  ...in order to circumvent stage censorship, Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue. ...: "Fred Karno is not only a genius, he is the man who originated slapstick comedy. We in Hollywood owe much to him."<ref>J. P. Gallagher (1971). "Fred Karno:
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• My Wife's Family (1956 film)
  '''''My Wife's Family''''' is a 1956 [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Gilbert Gunn]] and starring [[Ronald Shiner]], [[Ted R ...he Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "A further adaptation of the slapstick comedy by Fred Duprez (previously filmed in 1931 and 1941), this new production, i
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• Mister Ten Per Cent
  '''''Mister Ten Per Cent''''' is a 1967 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Peter Graham Scott]] and starring [[Charlie Drake]], [ ...e. To Percy's distress, the first audience see the play as a [[slapstick]] comedy, not the drama he intended it to be.
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• Diamonds for Breakfast (film)
  '''''Diamonds for Breakfast''''' is a 1968 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Christopher Morahan]].<ref name="NY Times.com">{{cite ...ng "slept through two World Wars". Mastroianni seems as embarrassed by his slapstick gags as Rita Tushingham does by the combination of Liverpudlian kookiness a
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• Who Done It? (1956 film)
  ...one It?''''' is a 1956 British slapstick black and white [[Ealing Comedies|comedy crime film]] directed by [[Basil Dearden]] and starring [[Benny Hill]], [[B ...nty to please the fans of tv comic Benny Hill in this rollicking slapstick comedy, but the situations and stock ingredients are corny and unlikely to make th
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• Kung Fu Kapers
  "'''Kung Fu Kapers'''" is an episode of the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]''. It caused ...dies'', during the celebration of the show's 50th anniversary at Bristol's Slapstick Festival.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristo
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• Man of the Moment (1955 film)
  '''''Man of the Moment''''' is a 1955 British [[comedy film]] starring [[Norman Wisdom]], [[Belinda Lee]], [[Lana Morris]] and [[J * ''[[TV Guide]]'' noted, "some fine slapstick moments, including a television studio chase that interrupts several progra
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• Patton Brothers
  ...sher=LULU Press|isbn=978-0-244-40166-5|language=en}}</ref> were an English comedy [[double act]] and the two older brothers of Barry and Paul Elliott, the [[ [[Category:English comedy duos]]
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