This humorous video is a compilation of a multitude of comedic clips from various British films spanning from 1930 to 1970....
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1977
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Based on the film Man Hunt, the BBC-produced Rogue Male stars Peter O'Toole as a British aristocrat who attempts to...
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1976
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The Littlest Horse Thieves is a Walt Disney Production. Set in early 20th-century England, the film concerns three Yorkshire...
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Lord Harrogate
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1976
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Novelist George MacDonald Fraser penned the script for this swashbuckling, picaresque adventure tale. The story is based on...
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1975
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An institutionalized schizophrenic with a Messiah complex inherits the position of an English Earl in this cutting satire of...
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Bishop Lampton
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1972
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This well-animated version of Dickens' classic Christmas story stays quite faithful to its source as it chronicles the...
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Ebenezer Scrooge
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1971
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1971
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A beautiful and wealthy woman in the market for a husband believes she has found the right man -- only to discover he isn't...
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Julius Sagamore
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1961
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In this darkly comic chiller, a surgeon suggest that his students steal corpses to use in their experiments. Unfortunately,...
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1961
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In the British farce School for Scoundrels, Ian Carmichael plays a naïve young loser, Henry Palfrey, who is anxious to get...
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Stephen Potter
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1960
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This rollicking political satire stars Ian Carmichael as an impressionable British TV personality. His vanity is stroked by a...
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1959
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This film adaptation of Bernard Shaw's 1903 comedy/drama stars Dirk Bogarde, which might have led some impressionable viewers...
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Cutler Walpole
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1958
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A father discovers that being a good role model for your son isn't always easy -- especially when you're a criminal -- in...
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1958
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Writer/artist Roland Searle's diabolical "belles" of St. Trinian's Girls School return in this raucous British comedy....
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Miss Fritton
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1956
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Alistair Sim plays a mild, innocuous little watchmaker who spends his off-hours as a professional assassin. His present...
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Hawkins
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1956
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Also known as Geordie, the British comedy Wee Geordie was immensely popular worldwide. A slight of frame and puny...
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The Laird
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1955
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Escapade has to be one of the most overused titles in movie history. This particular Escapade is a mild British comedy with...
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Dr. Skillingsworth
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1955
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The comfortable complacency of the British Birling family is upset when Inspector Poole (Alastair Sim) comes calling. An...
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Inspector Poole
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1954
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This low-key Launder-Gilliat production was inspired by a play by James Bridie. Alastair Sim carries the ball as Captain...
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Capt. Paris
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1953
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Belles of St. Trinian's was the first of several British comedies inspired by the fear-inspiring girl's school created by...
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Clarence/ Millicent Fritton
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1953
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Innocents in Paris is a series of anecdotes bundled together by geography. First we see the efforts by British diplomat...
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Sir Norman Barker
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1953
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Despite its lighthearted title, Lady Godiva Rides Again is a fairly potent indictment of the darker side of beauty contests....
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1951
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Four relatives find themselves going to unusual lengths to inherit a fortune in this British comedy. Henry Russell...
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Deniston Russell
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1951
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Widely considered to be the definitive of the many film versions of Charles Dickens' classic novel is this 1951 British...
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Ebenezer Scrooge
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1951
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Stage Fright toys with our notions of the dividing line between reality and artifice by being set in the London theatre...
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1950
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A battle of the sexes begins to rage in an isolated private school in this charming British comedy. Just outside of London...
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Wetherby Pond
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1950
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Mr. Squales
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1948
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At a World War II emergency hospital, a postman dues under anesthetic during a relatively minor operation. One of the nurses...
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Inspector Cockrill
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1947
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Set in early 19th-century Ireland, this fact-based drama chronicles the peasant uprising of peasants who finally tire of the...
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1947
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Alastair Sim is a delight to behold as always in the British Hue and Cry, but the film's true star is approximately 40 years...
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Felix H. Wilkinson
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1947
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This 1949 British film told a very plausible story about a triangle between a woman, her soldier husband, and her new lover....
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Dr. Montgomery
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1945
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Let the People Sing is an offshoot of J. B. Priestly's earlier show business-based fable The Good Companions. In Companions,...
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The Professor
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1942
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One of the few "Inspector Hornleigh" films to gain a wide US distribution, Mail Train stars Gordon Harker as Hornleigh and...
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Sgt. Bingham
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1941
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Cottage to Let is a taut British wartime spy thriller, laced with moments of genuinely hilarious comedy. The "maguffin" in...
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Charles Dimble
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1941
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In this actioner, a flashy young lawyer successfully defends some saboteurs. His friends and family are appalled as are the...
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1940
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In this mystery, the last entry in the Inspector Hornleigh series, Inspector Harker and his assistant take a two-week...
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Sgt. Bingham
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1939
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Previously filmed in 1928, the old Edgar Wallace novel The Terror was dusted off for another cinematic go-round ten years...
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1939
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Inspector Hornleigh was the first of three lively British crime films inspired by the popular BBC radio serial "Monday Night...
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Sgt. Bingham
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1939
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This Man is News is a British imitation of Hollywood's Thin Man pictures. The "Nick and Nora" herein are Barry K. Barnes as...
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Macgregor
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1939
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This Man in Paris was the followup to the successful British comedy-mystery This Man is News. Barry K. Barnes and Valerie...
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Macgregor
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1939
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The irrepressible Jessie Matthews heads the cast of the buoyant musical Sailing Along. Matthews plays Kay Martin, a popular...
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1938
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The continued adventure of the magic button that was crafted from the metal of Aladdin's magic lamp. Alf finds that this...
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1938
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Originally conceived as a musical (called Asking for Trouble) to showcase the talents of leading lady Jessie Matthews,...
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Max
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1938
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In this musical, a young fellow aspires to a career as a radio star. Along the way, the falls in love with a scientist's...
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1937
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In this romance a run away schoolgirl impersonates a socialite to hook a handsome RAF pilot. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1937
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Based on an Edgar Wallace novel, this is an involved story of the consequences within the underworld of a big-time diamond...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a scientist finds himself entangled in a criminal plot to make counterfeit pearls. He tries to escape...
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1937
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In this musical, a plucky London newspaper journalist boards a transatlantic ocean liner in hopes of interviewing a prominent...
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1937
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1936
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In this comedy, a young man learns that he is supposed to inherit some valuable jewels and enlists the aid of his shyster...
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1936
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A British town, desperate to save its dying mineral spring water business, launches a bizarre conspiracy to attract badly...
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1936
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The all-purpose title The Big Noise was dusted off twice in 1936, once by Hollywood's Warner Bros. and once by 20th...
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1936
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In this mid-19th century costume romance, a Scottish minister's daughter falls in love with an army officer. Their love is...
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1936
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The Man in the Mirror is Edward Everett Horton, making one of his periodic professional visits to England. Horton plays...
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1936
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Henry Oscar plays Gabriel Perry in this rusty-dusty British courtroom drama. Perry is the local justice-of-the peace; his...
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1935
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In this British Victorian comedy, a wealthy Englishman comes back from a journey to India to discover that instead of...
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1935
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In this murder mystery, three prominent, wealthy businessmen are killed just before their big meeting. To find their...
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1935
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In this drama, a cub reporter from the Daily Gazette attempts to catch a bank robber. He is assisted by a woman who wants to...
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1935
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In this comedy, two convicts are finally released after spending a decade prison. They immediately head back to the remote...
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1935
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