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Dad's Army (1971 film)

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Dad's Army is a 1971 British war comedy film and the first film adaptation of the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. [1]

68 relations: All Things Bright and Beautiful, Anthony Eden, Anthony Sagar, Arnold Ridley, Arthur Lowe, Bernard Archard, Bill Pertwee, Box office, British Board of Film Classification, Captain (naval), Captain Mainwaring, Chalfont St Giles, Clive Dunn, Columbia Pictures, Comedy film, Crypt, Dad's Army, David Croft (TV producer), Derek Newark, Dunkirk evacuation, Edward Sinclair, English Channel, Film adaptation, Ford Model AA, France, Frank Williams (actor), Fred Griffiths (actor), Home Guard (United Kingdom), Ian Lavender, James Beck, Janet Davies (actress), Jimmy Perry, John Laurie, John Le Mesurier, Jones' van (Dad's Army), Lance corporal, Lance Corporal Jones, Liz Fraser, London, Luftwaffe, Major general, Martins Bank, Mayor, Michael Knowles (actor), Norman Cohen, Pat Coombs, Platoon, Pontoon bridge, Principal photography, Private Godfrey, ..., Private Walker, Reconnaissance, Roger Maxwell (actor), Royal Marines, Sam Kydd, Sergeant, Sergeant Wilson, Shepperton Studios, Steamroller, Supermarine Spitfire, Thetford, Union Jack, Vicar, Walmington-on-Sea, War film, Wehrmacht, White Cliffs of Dover, Wilfred Burns. Expand index (18 more) »

All Things Bright and Beautiful

All Things Bright and Beautiful is an Anglican hymn, also popular with other Christian denominations.

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Anthony Eden

Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British Conservative politician who served three periods as Foreign Secretary and then a relatively brief term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957.

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Anthony Sagar

Anthony Sagar (19 June 1920 – 24 January 1973) was an English character actor and a member of the National Theatre.

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Arnold Ridley

William Arnold Ridley, OBE (7 January 1896 – 12 March 1984) was an English playwright and actor, first notable as the author of the play The Ghost Train and later in life for portraying the elderly Private Godfrey in the British sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977).

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Arthur Lowe

Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was an English actor.

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Bernard Archard

Bernard Joseph Archard (20 August 1916 – 1 May 2008) was an English actor who made numerous film and television appearances.

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Bill Pertwee

William Desmond Anthony Pertwee, (21 July 1926 – 27 May 2013) was an English comedy actor.

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Box office

A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Captain (naval)

Captain is the name most often given in English-speaking navies to the rank corresponding to command of the largest ships.

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Captain Mainwaring

Captain George Mainwaring is a fictional character portrayed by Arthur Lowe in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.

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Chalfont St Giles

Chalfont St Giles is a village and civil parish within the Chiltern district in south east Buckinghamshire, England, on the edge of the Chilterns, from London, and near Seer Green, Jordans, Chalfont St Peter, Little Chalfont and Amersham.

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Clive Dunn

Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn (9 January 19206 November 2012) was an English actor, comedian, artist, author, and singer.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Crypt

A crypt (from Latin crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building.

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Dad's Army

Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War.

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David Croft (TV producer)

Major David John Croft OBE (born David John Andrew Sharland; 7 September 1922 – 27 September 2011) was an English writer, producer and director.

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Derek Newark

Derek Newark (8 June 1933 – 11 August 1998) was an English actor in television, film and theatre.

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Dunkirk evacuation

The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.

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Edward Sinclair

Edward "Teddy" Sinclair Perry (3 February 1914 – 29 August 1977), known as Edward Sinclair, was an English actor who played the role of verger Maurice Yeatman in Dad's Army.

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English Channel

The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Film adaptation

A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film.

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Ford Model AA

Ford Model AA is a truck from Ford.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Frank Williams (actor)

Frank Williams (born 2 July 1931) is an English actor best known for playing Timothy Farthing, the vicar in the BBC comedy Dad's Army.

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Fred Griffiths (actor)

Fred Griffiths (8 March 1912 – 27 August 1994) was an English film and television actor.

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Home Guard (United Kingdom)

The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War.

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Ian Lavender

Arthur Ian Lavender (born 16 February 1946) is an English stage, film and television actor.

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James Beck

Stanley James Carroll Beck (21 February 1929 – 6 August 1973) was an English actor who played the role of Private Walker, a cockney spiv, in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army.

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Janet Davies (actress)

Janet Kathleen Davies (14 September 1927 – 22 September 1986) was an English actress best known for her recurring role as Mrs. Pike in the long-running sitcom Dad's Army. Although mainly remembered for her role in Dad's Army, appearing in 30 episodes of the series, she also featured in many other television and film roles including Dixon of Dock Green, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, All Creatures Great and Small, Last of the Summer Wine, Z-Cars, The Citadel, Pride and Prejudice, Open All Hours, Are You Being Served?, and in the films The Ghost Goes Gear (1966) and Interlude (1968). Davies was upset that she did not appear in the film version of Dad’s Army (1971) in which her character was played by Liz Fraser. When she was not acting, Davies exploited her typing and shorthand training by working with various theatrical agencies. She was married to the actor Ian Gardiner, who was best known for having played Reginald Molehusband in a Central Office of Information public information film in the 1960s. She died on 22 September 1986, aged 59, from breast cancer which had metastasised to her lungs., btconnect.com; accessed 13 December 2014.

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Jimmy Perry

James Perry, OBE (20 September 1923 – 23 October 2016) was an English actor and scriptwriter, best known for devising and co-writing the BBC sitcoms Dad's Army (1968–1977), It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1981), Hi-De-Hi (1980–1988) and You Rang M'Lord? (1988–1993), all with David Croft.

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John Laurie

John Paton Laurie (25 March 1897 – 23 June 1980) was a Scottish actor.

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John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley; 5 April 191215 November 1983) was an English actor.

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Jones' van (Dad's Army)

Jones' van is the butcher's delivery van owned by Lance-Corporal Jones in the BBC comedy series Dad's Army.

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Lance corporal

Lance corporal is a military rank, used by many armed forces worldwide, and also by some police forces and other uniformed organisations.

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Lance Corporal Jones

Lance Corporal Jack Jones is a fictional Home Guard platoon lance corporal, veteran of the British Empire and butcher, portrayed by Clive Dunn in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.

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Liz Fraser

Liz Fraser (born Elizabeth Joan Winch; 14 August 1930) is a BAFTA-nominated English actress, best known for her comedy roles as a provocative "dumb blonde" in British films of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.

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Major general

Major general (abbreviated MG, Maj. Gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

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Martins Bank

Martins Bank was a London private bank, trading for much of its time under the symbol of “The Grasshopper”, that could trace its origins back to the London goldsmiths.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Michael Knowles (actor)

Michael Knowles (born 1937) is an English actor and scriptwriter.

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Norman Cohen

Norman Cohen (11 June 1936 in Dublin – 26 October 1983 in Van Nuys, California) was an Irish film director and producer, best known for directing two feature films based on television comedy programmes, Till Death Us Do Part (1969) and Dad's Army (1971).

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Pat Coombs

Patricia Doreen Coombs (27 August 1926 – 25 May 2002) was an English actress.

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Platoon

A platoon is a military unit typically composed of two or more squads/sections/patrols.

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Pontoon bridge

A pontoon bridge (or ponton bridge), also known as a floating bridge, uses floats or shallow-draft boats to support a continuous deck for pedestrian and vehicle travel.

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Principal photography

Film production on location in Newark, New Jersey, April 2004. Principal photography is the phase of film production in which the movie is filmed, with actors on set and cameras rolling, as distinct from pre-production and post-production.

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Private Godfrey

Private Charles Godfrey MM is a fictional Home Guard platoon member and variously retired assistant in the sports department of the Civil Service Stores (TV) or tailor and assistant in the Army & Navy Stores (radio) portrayed by Arnold Ridley on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.

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Private Walker

Private Joe Walker is a fictional black market spiv (or Wholesales Supplier, as he politely puts it) and Home Guard platoon member, portrayed by actor James Beck in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.

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Reconnaissance

In military operations, reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration outside an area occupied by friendly forces to gain information about natural features and other activities in the area.

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Roger Maxwell (actor)

Roger Maxwell (1 January 1900 – 24 November 1971) was an English actor.

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Royal Marines

The Corps of Royal Marines (RM) is the amphibious light infantry of the Royal Navy.

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Sam Kydd

Samuel John Kydd (15 February 1915 – 26 March 1982) was an English actor.

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Sergeant

Sergeant (abbreviated to Sgt and capitalized when used as a named person's title) is a rank in many uniformed organizations, principally military and policing forces.

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Sergeant Wilson

The Honourable Arthur Wilson, also known as Sergeant Wilson, is a fictional Home Guard platoon sergeant and bank chief clerk.

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Shepperton Studios

Shepperton Studios is a film studio located in Shepperton, Surrey, England with a history dating back to 1931.

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Steamroller

A steamroller (or steam roller) is a form of road roller – a type of heavy construction machinery used for leveling surfaces, such as roads or airfields – that is powered by a steam engine.

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Supermarine Spitfire

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during and after World War II.

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Thetford

Thetford is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England.

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Union Jack

The Union Jack, or Union Flag, is the national flag of the United Kingdom.

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Vicar

A vicar (Latin: vicarius) is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand").

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Walmington-on-Sea

Walmington-on-Sea is a fictional seaside resort that is the setting of Dad's Army, including the BBC Television sitcom, the BBC Radio 4 series and two feature films (1971 and 2016).

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War film

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama.

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Wehrmacht

The Wehrmacht (lit. "defence force")From wehren, "to defend" and Macht., "power, force".

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White Cliffs of Dover

The White Cliffs of Dover, part of the North Downs formation, is the name given to the region of English coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France.

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Wilfred Burns

Wilfred Burns (1917-1990) was a British composer of film scores.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad's_Army_(1971_film)

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