This time we go all the way through to the present day. | Hattie Jacques, Duncan Macrae, S Director: British films. | Four hilarious comedies starring Ian Carmichael, Joyce Grenfell, Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough, Wilfrid Hyde White and more! 85 min Comedy, Crime, Family. A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union. The giants of previous decades were mostly on the wane: Michael Powell made one dazzling film, Peeping Tom (1960), but suffered a ferocious critical mauling which shredded his reputation; Carol Reed had a huge hit - and won an Oscar - with the uncharacteristic Oliver! Bakhtin's “Carnivalesque” in 1950s British Comedy. Stanley Baxter, Director: Terry-Thomas, 81 min | | Leslie Phillips, Stanley Holloway, Two football-loving railway workers get into trouble after racing their engine home to get to a match on time. James Robertson Justice, A young couple inherits a debt-ridden old movie theater, appropriately nicknamed "The Flea Pit", and the three eccentric senior citizens who work there. | Alec Guinness, 84 min Ralph Thomas Harry H. Corbett, Patricia Bredin, Comedy: Last Holiday: Henry Cass: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh: Comedy: … Terry-Thomas, An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons. Ian Carmichael, 85 min | | The writer and some of his... See full summary », Director: Chris Morris’ British comedian’s brilliant black comedy is centred on a group of Islamist suicide bombers who try to perform a terrorist attack in London. No matter what your taste, this selection of TV comedy will keep you amused for hours. Frank Launder Comedy, Mystery, An inept gang of bank robbers, led by George The Brain, are caught and sentenced to 15 years hard labour each. Kenneth Williams, 45 min 88 min In the early 1930s, film adaptations of stage farces were popular. Shirley Eaton, S Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. Charles Hawtrey, | | A naive Scotsman buys a vintage sports car and learns to drive in order to impress the daughter of an arrogant aristocrat who despises him. Gerald Thomas David Lodge, | Edward Chapman, 4, pp. Director: Director: When a millionaire practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in. Director: Duncan Wood Leslie Phillips, Stars: This uncompromising Ealing Studio film, one of the last B/W British films about WWII in the 1950s, combined Elleston Trevor's novel The Big Pickup with a factual account named Dunkirk by Ewan Butler and J.S. | | Sidney James, Double Bunk (1961) 6. | He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices... See full summary », Director: | James Robertson Justice, Director: Margaret Rutherford, | | Comedy. Ronald Lewis, | Stars: Ricky Gervais, … They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the ... See full summary », Director: Stars: Daniel Massey, Comedy, Drama, Romance, A group of students at an elite music school decide to share a flat in order to cut their living costs and have somewhere to practice together. From ‘Monty Python’ to ‘Don't Look Now’, British movies are have made cinematic history. Stars: Stars: Stars: Ronald Lewis, After Mackendrick's Scottish comedy The Maggie (1954) the decade laid claim to the fourth and last of the Ealing comedies, as Guinness again shone in … | | Back-Room Boy (1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1941) Blithe Spirit (1945) Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) Crook's Tour (1941) The Frozen Limits (1940) Gasbags (1940) The Ghost of St Michaels (1941) The Goose Steps Out (1942) He Snoops to Conquer (1944) Hoots Mon! | Tommy Cooper, Kenneth More, Favourite British Films 1960s by jmct-53906 | created - 05 Feb 2016 | updated - 3 months ago | Public Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc John Boulting But this film about Ruth Ellis, who in 1956 became the last woman to be legally hanged in Britain, just about edges it for its star-making casting and its overall emotional intensity. Julie Christie, The Girl Who Couldn't Quite (1950) The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) Her Favourite Husband (1950) Into the Blue (1950) Last Holiday (1950) The Magnet (1950) Old Mother Riley Headmistress (1950) Over the Garden Wall (1950) Something in the City (1950) Appointment with Venus (1951) Encore (1951) The Galloping Major (1951) Happy Go Lovely (1951) Hotel Sahara (1951) Stars: Stars: Director Karel Reisz. If Ealing Studios had become synonymous with genteel British comedy, Hammer was the studio that became associated with lurid British horror. | Filter list by studio. A list of British TV and radio comedies and comedy films that debuted in 1960. Glenn Melvyn, | Stars: John Paddy Carstairs | Sidney James, 91 min Here are the 100 best British films of all time. 93 min He updated his famous role as … 86 min Robert Asher Comedy. | | Comedy. If Ealing Studios had become synonymous with genteel British comedy, Hammer was the studio that became associated with lurid British horror. He is finally ... See full summary », Director: | The selection of case studies encompasses the overlooked and critically derided alongside the more celebrated and better known in order to represent the range of British film comedy of the time. Stars: Shaun O'Riordan, | Part One – After The War We are going tore-run a series of posts looking back over the last 70 years of great British comedy. | Jimmy Edwards, | Leslie Dwyer, Approved Roy Boulting Comedy, Romance, At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Wilfrid Hyde-White, Not Rated Cecil Parker, Directors: The Series of Carry On Films: A highly successful, saucy and interminable series of almost 30 British comedy films were popular over a period of 20 years, from 1958-1978, from Carry On Sergeant (1958) to Carry On Emmanuelle (1978). | Gross: Director: Jean Seberg, | Comedy, A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. Stars: The ever-thorny issue of the ethics and practice of capital punishment has fuelled several partly or entirely 1950s-set dramas, including 10 Rillington Place (1970), Let Him Have It (1991) and Pierrepoint (2005). See which classic imported movies top our list of the 25 best British comedy films of all time. Eric Sykes, https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/08/best-british-comedy-movies In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s. | Janette Scott, Not Rated 23, No. Frank Launder They get into quite a few scraps and ... See full summary », Director: An unlikely trio of women (Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques, and Elspeth Duxbury) find ... See full summary », Director: a sensible comedy about a couple who buy a houseboat which unlikely for them find that its a run down and needs work doing without going anywhere. Alexander Mackendrick | Jack Arnold Director: David Kossoff, Not Rated Herbert Lom, Votes: The British Film Yearbook of 1945 claimed that Leslie Howard’s films were one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda. Stars: | | Billy Liar (1963) Director John Schlesinger. Director: | It starts out like a really funny Guy Ritchie film but it soon turns out to be like a really unfunny Tobe Hooper film. | British comedy films are comedy films produced in UK. 102 min Radio is still the main player but with the advent […] Director: Stars: Left Right and Centre (1959) 8. Lejeune of The Observer as amongst the most repulsive films she had ever seen. Michael Truman Joan Sims, | Director: Gerald Thomas Director: Director: Kenneth Williams, Juliet Mills, School for Scoundrels (1960) 10. George Cole. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. £12.99 £12.99; Quantity Add to Basket. Stars: Director: Stars: A young man finds a very special school. 93 min | 1950's, 1960's, 1960's BBC Comedy, 1960's ITV Comedy, Comedy Profiles, TV Comedy Tony Hancock 12th May, 1924 - 24th June, 1968 Continuing our look at some of the biggest and most important names from comedy over the last 70 years. Margaret Rutherford, | The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man... See full summary », Director: In the history of British Comedy the 1950’s is perhaps one the most significant decades. Cyril Frankel When they are released from prison they start out to collect the money they ... See full summary », Director: Lionel Jeffries, Arthur Askey, Though British comedy films can often become American classics, as well, there have been quite a few that have fallen through the cracks or just never caught on with American audiences as they did in their home country, meaning that there could be plenty of great films you haven't seen, but definitely should. Roy Castle, Not Rated Kenneth Connor, Brenda de Banzie, A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers. Alan Hale Jr. 95 min Comedy. | Reg Varney, Approved Peggy Cummins, Joan Greenwood, Sidney James, Muriel Pavlow, | May 18, 2020 - Comedy legends we mustn't forget. (Arguably the greatest movie about Hollywood, Billy Wilder’s masterpiece Sunset Boulevard is a tremendously entertaining combination of noir, black comedy, and character study. | Part of the Ealing Comedies, “Lavender Hill Mob” is a crime comedy set in the post-war austerity of Britain and Paris (in part) and includes a brief, charming appearance by Audrey Hepburn. Peter Sellers, | He wants to be a window dresser making up the public ... See full summary », Director: Stars: Gerald Thomas Shirley Eaton, Approved C.M. We’ve tagged some of the best sitcoms from the last 70 years, as 70 Years Of British Comedy […] Moira Lister, Director: Stars: Stars: Comedy, Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a ... See full summary », Director: | The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks ... See full summary », Director: | Derek Bond, 85 min Bill Travers, Cyril Smith, Not Rated A list of British TV and radio comedies and comedy films that debuted in 1950. The list, which spans 75 years of British filmmaking, is heavily dominated by pictures from decades ago, with 11 from the 1940s alone. Director: 83 min Denholm Elliott, Peter Sellers, | 94 min St Trinians British Comedy British Actors What Is English British Lions Alec Guinness Bbc Tv Series Comedy Tv Great Films British Comedy British Actors What Is English British Lions Alec Guinness Bbc Tv Series Comedy Tv Great Films Stars: A tiny country persuades the Americans and Soviets that they're starting a space program, when they really just want some money for new plumbing. Comedy drama Curtain Up: United Kingdom: The Card: United Kingdom: The Importance of … Stars: | Comedy, It's time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship stop them from trying to humiliate each other. Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom, K-12 Kenneth Connor, Read our list of the best comedy movies of all time, including the best comedies by decade and funniest films ever to hit the big screen. Pat Jackson Miriam Karlin, Comedy about a cleaning lady who stumbles across a piece of paper in her bosses office which ends up with ladies who try to steel the stocks of a property tycoon. Peter Sellers, Stars: Stars: Mario Zampi The story of an office that faces closure when the company decides to downsize its branches. Gregory Peck, 98 min Stars: Ken Annakin Jack Hedley, 100 min Remember, solving crosswords is a great way to train your memory, learn a lot, and develop analytical skills. Director: Eric Sykes Comedy. $12.37M, Not Rated | | Bernard Cribbins, Stanley Holloway, Hal E. Chester, Stars: Davy Kaye, Not Rated 81 min Kay Kendall, Hattie Jacques, Mario Zampi Comedy. 78 min | Gross: | Dora Bryan, The Green Man is the greatest British comedy you've never heard of . Michael Craig, | | | Dinah Sheridan, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Film. A young married couple experience difficulties doing up a cottage, and are hindered by the wife's father. Blake Edwards George Cole, Chaos ensues for staff and students alike when an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled ... See full summary », Director: Gilbert Gunn Don't forget subscribe to this channel. | Stars: Comedy, Norman is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Comedy. Home › British Film Comedy: The 50s (DVD) British Film Comedy: The 50s (DVD) 188258. | Stars: Dave King, Sidney James, 179-185. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. Comedy. Robert Day 80 min William Hartnell, Not Rated 102 min | Very funny, Approved Dennis Price, Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. Volunteers take over their local passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when the government announces its closure. | C.M. | Gerald Thomas Genevieve (1953) 9. The trials and tribulations of a group of medical students at St. Swithin's hospital in London, England. Comedy. | Stars: Robert Hamer, Don Chaffey Director: Sidney Gilliat, | For film and TV DVD new releases, vintage British classics … | Gerald Thomas The Swingin' Maiden (1963) 7. Comedy film List of comedy films Pre 1920 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s Stars: Directors: Stars: Richard Attenborough, 89 min Pennington-Richards Charles Crichton | Too Many Crooks (1959) 11. | George Cole, Donald Houston, Ronald Squire, Sidney James, Stars: List of comedy films of the 1950s. Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians. Terry-Thomas, | Juliet Mills, Director: Shirley Eaton, 105 min Stars: Stars: Comedy, Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. | Anne Helm, British films of the Fifties – a decade packed with surprises Brought to you by. | See more ideas about comedians, british comedy, comedy actors. George Cole and Alistair Sim in The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) Saved by redacted. Winchester '73 (1950), 92 minutes, D: Anthony Mann Kenneth Connor, 91 min George Sanders, Elke Sommer, Gerald Thomas Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate. Fay Compton, 92 min | A selection of British Horror Films of the 1950s. Lionel Jeffries, Bob Monkhouse, Farcical misadventures by guests in an English holiday centre. C.M. | Comedy. Janette Scott, | Noel Purcell, TV-PG | Ronnie Stevens, Directors: 94 min | Ronnie Barker, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 91 min Frankie Howerd, Before long, the guests begin to drop dead. | Eric Sykes, Comedy, Zany collection of misfits led by aging military man (Terry-Thomas) go on a spree of robbing mink coats. Alastair Sim, An assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him. Ian Carmichael, | Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khyber Pass. Stars: Discover (and save!) James Robertson Justice, Here are a few examples of ways you can filter the charts: The Top 10 Comedies of the 1950s; The Top 20 Comedies of the 1950s; The Top 50 Comedies of the 1950s Bernard Cribbins, Hugh Griffith, The film stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as witnesses to a murder who disguise themselves as women to avoid being caught by the perpetrators. | George Cole, … Basil Dearden Filter list by studio. Virginia McKenna, The 1950’s – The Great British Sitcom Is Born Continuing our look back at some of the key moments in the changing face of comedy over the last 70 years. | Hemel has a girl in every town along his route, and each one is intent on marriage. Comedy, Romance. Joan Sims. Comedy, Romance, An American airline firm plans to buy a new British passenger plane, but the deal hits trouble when the plane's designer, Jack Hopkins (Michael Craig), and Kathy Fisher (Anne Helm), the ... See full summary ». Comedy, Mystery. A list of British TV and radio comedies and comedy films that debuted in 1960. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the ... See full summary », Director: Comedy, When newlyweds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a rundown houseboat. Norman Wisdom, Stars: | Margaret Rutherford, Terry-Thomas, C.M. | Jeff Donnell, A selection of British Horror Films of the 1950s. Stars: $0.01M, Approved Peter Sellers, Stars: | They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer. Director: | Bill Travers, 84 min Jane Griffiths, | Joyce Grenfell, Unrated Bernadette O'Farrell, 82 min Alastair Sim, S Robert Day, Ernie's uncle has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives. The Big Job (1965) 2. Peggy Mount, David Kossoff, S Stars: Jill Adams, Not Rated Stars: She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to ... See full summary », Director: Peter Sellers. Comedy, Classic British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. | But find later they get lost in fog ending up in France and a race back for a bet. 1950's, 1950's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, TV Comedy Hancock's Half Hour, The Cruise, 1959 Starting a week of posts on the theme of holidays, today we're going cruising with Tony Hancock.From the fifth series of this classic series comes a little gem. Comedy. Ronald Neame Stars: Classic BBC and ITV entertainment such as Only Fools and Horses, Blackadder and Fawlty Towers is a good place to start. | An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan. Pennington-Richards Stars: | After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra on a trip down the river ... See full summary », Director: | Peter Sellers, | Comedy. Michael Gough, Votes: Basil Dearden Director: | your own Pins on Pinterest | | (1996). | Peggy Mount, Director: Best old movies All movies are checked for quality, proper sound volume and easy viewing experience. The perverse, cynical film references Swanson's actual career, with excerpts from one of her unfinished films (Queen Kelly, directed by von Stroheim) and cameos by other forgotten silent film stars (e.g., Buster Keaton). Pennington-Richards Robert Morley, Comedy films began to explore new topics by the end of the 1950s. Robert Asher Michael Winner British comedy films are comedy films produced in the United Kingdom.In the early 1930s, film adaptations of stage farces were popular. $0.22M, PG Comedy. | Gordon Parry Donald Sinden, Cecil Parker, Comedy, In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Language; Watch; Edit; A list of comedy films released in the 1950s. Comedy, Crime. 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