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Sidney Gilliat

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Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer. [1]

93 relations: A Gentleman of Paris (1931 film), A Yank at Oxford, Alfred Hitchcock, Amanda Eliasch, Ask a Policeman, Bed and Breakfast (1930 film), Blue Murder at St Trinian's, Bulldog Jack, Captain Boycott (film), Carol Reed, Cheshire, Chu Chin Chow (1934 film), Devizes, Edgeley, Endless Night (1972 film), England, Facing the Music (1933 film), Falling for You (1933 film), Film director, Film producer, Folly to Be Wise, Fortune Is a Woman, Frank Launder, Friday the Thirteenth (1933 film), Geordie (film), Girl in the News, Graham Greene, Green for Danger (film), I See a Dark Stranger, Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday, Jack Ahoy, Jack Hawkins, Jack Hulbert, Jamaica Inn (film), Joey Boy (film), Kipps (1941 film), Lady Godiva Rides Again, Left Right and Centre, London Belongs to Me, Lord Richard in the Pantry, Malcolm Williamson, Millions Like Us, Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light, My Heart is Calling, Night Train to Munich, Only Two Can Play, Ooh… You Are Awful, Orders Is Orders, Our Man in Havana, Our Man in Havana (film), ..., Our Man in Havana (opera), Partners in Crime (1942 film), Red Pearls, Rex Harrison, Rome Express, Screenwriter, Seven Sinners (1936 film), Sonnie Hale, St Trinian's School, State Secret (1950 film), Stockport, Strange Boarders, Strangers on Honeymoon, Take My Tip, The Belles of St Trinian's, The Blue Lagoon (1949 film), The Bridal Path (film), The Constant Husband, The Gaunt Stranger, The Ghost Train (1931 film), The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, The Green Man (film), The Happiest Days of Your Life, The Happy Ending (1931 film), The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Changed His Mind, The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, The Rake's Progress (film), The Ringer (1931 film), The Smallest Show on Earth, The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, The Young Mr Pitt, They Came by Night, Third Time Lucky (1931 film), Twelve Good Men, Two Thousand Women, Walter Forde, Waterloo Road (film), Where There's a Will (1936 film), Will Hay, Wiltshire, Would You Believe It!, You'd Be Surprised!. Expand index (43 more) »

A Gentleman of Paris (1931 film)

A Gentleman of Paris is a 1931 British crime drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Arthur Wontner, Vanda Gréville and Hugh Williams.

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A Yank at Oxford

A Yank at Oxford (1938) is a British film directed by Jack Conway from a screenplay by John Monk Saunders and Leon Gordon.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Amanda Eliasch

Amanda Eliasch is an English photographer, artist, poet and filmmaker.

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Ask a Policeman

Ask a Policeman is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel which stars Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.

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Bed and Breakfast (1930 film)

Bed and Breakfast is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jane Baxter, Richard Cooper and Sari Maritza.

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Blue Murder at St Trinian's

Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957) is British comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's School.

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Bulldog Jack

Bulldog Jack (released as Alias Bulldog Drummond in the USA) is a 1935 British film produced by Gaumont British, directed by Walter Forde, and starring Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson and Atholl Fleming.

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Captain Boycott (film)

Captain Boycott is a 1947 British historical drama film directed by Frank Launder and starring Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Mervyn Johns, Alastair Sim and Cecil Parker.

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Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949).

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Chu Chin Chow (1934 film)

Chu Chin Chow is a 1934 British musical film directed by Walter Forde and starring George Robey, Fritz Kortner and Anna May Wong.

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Devizes

Devizes is a market town and civil parish in the centre of Wiltshire, England.

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Edgeley

Edgeley is a suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

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Endless Night (1972 film)

Endless Night is a 1972 British horror and crime film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Hayley Mills, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson, Hywel Bennett and George Sanders.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Facing the Music (1933 film)

Facing the Music is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Stanley Lupino, Jose Collins and Nancy Burne.

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Falling for You (1933 film)

Falling for You is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and Jack Hulbert, and starring Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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Film producer

A film producer is a person who oversees the production of a film.

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Folly to Be Wise

Folly to Be Wise is a 1953 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder and starring Alastair Sim, Elizabeth Allan, Roland Culver, Colin Gordon, Martita Hunt and Edward Chapman.

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Fortune Is a Woman

Fortune Is a Woman is a 1957 British film noir crime film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price and Greta Gynt.

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Frank Launder

Frank Launder (28 January 1906 – 23 February 1997) was a British writer, film director and producer, who made more than 40 films, many of them in collaboration with Sidney Gilliat.

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Friday the Thirteenth (1933 film)

Friday the Thirteenth is a 1933 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Muriel Aked.

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Geordie (film)

Geordie (released in the United States as Wee Geordie) is a 1955 British film directed and co-produced by Frank Launder, with Bill Travers in the title role as a Scotsman who becomes an athlete and competes at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

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Girl in the News

Girl in the News is a 1940 British thriller film directed by Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes and Emlyn Williams.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

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Green for Danger (film)

Green for Danger is a 1946 British thriller film, based on the 1944 detective novel of the same name by Christianna Brand.

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I See a Dark Stranger

I See a Dark Stranger – released as The Adventuress in the United States – is a 1946 British World War II spy film with touches of light comedy, by the team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, and starring Deborah Kerr and Trevor Howard.

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Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday is a 1939 British detective film directed by Walter Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim and Linden Travers.

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Jack Ahoy

Jack Ahoy is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Nancy O'Neil, Alfred Drayton and Sam Wilkinson.

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Jack Hawkins

John Edward Hawkins, CBE (14 September 1910 – 18 July 1973) was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s.

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Jack Hulbert

John Norman "Jack" Hulbert (24 April 189225 March 1978) was a British actor, director, screenwriter and singer, specializing primarily in comedy productions, and often working alongside his wife Cicely Courtneidge.

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Jamaica Inn (film)

Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name, the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel Rebecca and short story "The Birds").

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Joey Boy (film)

Joey Boy is a 1965 British comedy war film directed by Frank Launder and starring Harry H. Corbett, Stanley Baxter, Bill Fraser, Percy Herbert, Lance Percival, Reg Varney and Thorley Walters.

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Kipps (1941 film)

Kipps, also known as The Remarkable Mr.

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Lady Godiva Rides Again

Lady Godiva Rides Again, released in the United States as Bikini Baby, is a 1951 British comedy film starring Pauline Stroud, about a small-town English girl who wins a beauty contest and heads for greater fame after appearing as Lady Godiva in a pageant.

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Left Right and Centre

Left Right and Centre is a 1959 British satirical comedy film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Ian Carmichael, Patricia Bredin, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker and Alastair Sim.

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London Belongs to Me

London Belongs to Me (also known as Dulcimer Street) is a British film released in 1948, directed by Sidney Gilliat, and starring Richard Attenborough and Alastair Sim.

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Lord Richard in the Pantry

Lord Richard in the Pantry is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Richard Cooper, Dorothy Seacombe and Marjorie Hume.

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Malcolm Williamson

Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, AO, CBE (21 November 19312 March 2003) was an Australian composer.

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Millions Like Us

Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail.

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Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light

Mr.

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My Heart is Calling

My Heart Is Calling is a 1935 British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Jan Kiepura, Mártha Eggerth and Sonnie Hale.

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Night Train to Munich

Night Train to Munich is a 1940 British thriller film directed by Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison.

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Only Two Can Play

Only Two Can Play is a 1962 British comedy film starring Peter Sellers, based on the novel That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis.

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Ooh… You Are Awful

'Ooh...

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Orders Is Orders

Orders Is Orders is a 1933 British comedy film starring Charlotte Greenwood, James Gleason and Cyril Maude about an American film crew who move into a British army barracks to start making a film, much to the commander's horror.

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Our Man in Havana

Our Man In Havana (1958) is a novel set in Cuba by the British author Graham Greene.

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Our Man in Havana (film)

Our Man in Havana is a 1959 British spy comedy film shot in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Carol Reed and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs.

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Our Man in Havana (opera)

Our Man in Havana is an opera in three acts composed by Malcolm Williamson to a libretto by Sidney Gilliat based on Graham Greene's 1958 novel Our Man in Havana.

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Partners in Crime (1942 film)

Partners in Crime is a short 1942 British film.

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Red Pearls

Red Pearls is a 1930 British silent crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Lillian Rich, Frank Perfitt and Arthur Pusey.

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Rex Harrison

Sir Reginald Carey Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990), known as Rex Harrison, was an English actor of stage and screen.

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Rome Express

Rome Express is a 1932 British thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Esther Ralston and Conrad Veidt.

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Screenwriter

A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

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Seven Sinners (1936 film)

Seven Sinners is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Edmund Lowe, Constance Cummings and Felix Aylmer.

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Sonnie Hale

Sonnie Hale (1 May 1902 – 9 June 1959) was an English theatre and cinema actor and director.

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St Trinian's School

St Trinian's was a British gag cartoon comic strip series, created and drawn by Ronald Searle from 1946 until 1952.

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State Secret (1950 film)

State Secret is a 1950 British drama film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Olga Lowe and Herbert Lom.

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Stockport

Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester city centre, where the River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey.

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Strange Boarders

Strange Boarders is a 1938 British comedy thriller film, directed by Herbert Mason, produced by Edward Black for Gainsborough Pictures, and starring Tom Walls, Renée Saint-Cyr, Googie Withers and Ronald Adam.

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Strangers on Honeymoon

Strangers on Honeymoon is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Constance Cummings, Hugh Sinclair and Noah Beery, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

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Take My Tip

Take My Tip is a 1937 British musical comedy film directed by Herbert Mason (who stage managed some musical revues in the past), produced by Michael Balcon and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Harold Huth and Frank Cellier.

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The Belles of St Trinian's

The Belles of St Trinian's is a British comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's school, released in 1954.

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The Blue Lagoon (1949 film)

The Blue Lagoon is a 1949 British romance and adventure film produced and directed by Frank Launder, starring Jean Simmons and Donald Houston.

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The Bridal Path (film)

The Bridal Path is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder and starring Bill Travers, George Cole and Bernadette O'Farrell.

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The Constant Husband

The Constant Husband is a 1955 British comedy film, directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, George Cole and Raymond Huntley.

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The Gaunt Stranger

The Gaunt Stranger (released as The Phantom Strikes in the US) is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde.

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The Ghost Train (1931 film)

The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd.

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The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery

The Great St.

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The Green Man (film)

The Green Man is a 1956 British black comedy film based on the play Meet a Body by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, who produced and adapted the big-screen version.

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The Happiest Days of Your Life

The Happiest Days of Your Life is a 1950 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder, based on the play by John Dighton.

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The Happy Ending (1931 film)

The Happy Ending is a 1931 British drama film directed by Millard Webb and starring George Barraud, Daphne Courtney and Alfred Drayton.

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The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave.

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The Man Who Changed His Mind

The Man Who Changed His Mind is a 1936 British science fiction horror film starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee.

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The Pure Hell of St Trinian's

The Pure Hell of St Trinian's is a 1960 British comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's School.

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The Rake's Progress (film)

The Rake's Progress is a 1945 British comedy-drama film.

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The Ringer (1931 film)

The Ringer is a 1931 British crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Patric Curwen, Esmond Knight, John Longden and Carol Goodner.

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The Smallest Show on Earth

The Smallest Show on Earth (US: Big Time Operators) is a 1957 British comedy film, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford.

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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan is a 1953 British technicolor film that dramatises the story of the collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.

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The Young Mr Pitt

The Young Mr.

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They Came by Night

They Came by Night is a 1940 British crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Will Fyffe, Phyllis Calvert and Anthony Hulme.

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Third Time Lucky (1931 film)

Third Time Lucky is a 1931 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Bobby Howes, Dorothy Boyd and Gordon Harker.

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Twelve Good Men

Twelve Good Men is a 1936 British crime film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Henry Kendall, Nancy O'Neil and Joyce Kennedy.

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Two Thousand Women

Two Thousand Women (1944) is a British comedy-drama war film about a camp of interned British women in Occupied France.

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Walter Forde

Walter Forde (born Thomas Seymour Woolford, 21 April 1898 – 7 January 1984) was a British actor, screenwriter and director.

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Waterloo Road (film)

Waterloo Road (1945) is a British film based on the Waterloo area of South London, starring John Mills, Stewart Granger, and Alistair Sim, and directed by Sidney Gilliat.

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Where There's a Will (1936 film)

Where There's a Will is a 1936 British comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt and Norma Varden.

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Will Hay

Hay in ''The Ghost of St. Michael's'' (1941) William Thomson Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian, actor, author, film director and amateur astronomer who came to notice for his theatrical sketch as a jocular schoolmaster, known as Dr.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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Would You Believe It!

Would You Believe It! is a 1929 British silent comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Forde, Pauline Johnson and Arthur Stratton.

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You'd Be Surprised!

You'd Be Surprised! is a 1930 British musical comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Forde, Joy Windsor and Frank Stanmore.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gilliat

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