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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Apparently in the Italy of the 1920s, the only way to keep your home out of the maws of the tax collector was to steal and...
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Princess Ilaria
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1967
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In this animated children's film, Mother Goose and her fairytale friends must stop a group of sneaky spies. ~ Iotis...
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1967
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Charles Chaplin wrote, directed, and scored this old-fashioned romantic comedy, which proved to be his last film. Wealthy...
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1967
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The legendary Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, the notoriously drunken, obese, and yet charming companion of the...
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1966
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Miss Marple
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1965
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Murder Most Foul represented Margaret Rutherford's third appearance as Agatha Christie's spinsterish sleuth Miss Marple. The...
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Miss Marple
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1964
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The last of Margaret Rutherford's "Miss Marple" films, Murder Ahoy is the only one of the series not based on an...
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Miss Marple
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1964
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Miss Marple
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1963
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Terrence Rattigan, the playwright who brought us the multicharactered, multistoried Separate Tables, again offers us an...
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Duchess of Brighton
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1963
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Grand Duchess Gloriana
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1963
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Miss Marple
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1962
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Danny Kaye headlines this lively WW II-era comedy. He plays a foot soldier who with his fellow troop is preparing for D-day....
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Lady Vivian
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1961
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Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features...
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1959
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The Smallest Show on Earth is a gentle, frequently uproarious takeoff of Britain's neighborhood-cinema industry. Real-life...
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Mrs. Fazackalee
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1957
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Mrs. Dooley
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1957
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You gets what you pays for in An Alligator Named Daisy. Donald Sinden stars as a young songwriter who accidentally picks up...
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1955
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Lantern-jawed British comedian Frankie Howerd, best known to American TV fans as the star of the raucous historical satire...
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Cynthia Beeston
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1954
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Mad About Men is the delightful sequel to the saucy British comedy-fantasy Miranda. Glynis Johns returns in the dual role of...
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Nurse Cary
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1954
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A prim and pious old woman suddenly has her hands full when her devilishly free-spirited uncle dies and bequeaths her his...
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1954
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Ebullient British music-hall comedian Norman Wisdom made his movie debut in Trouble in Store. The scene is a large department...
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Miss Bacon
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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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Gladys Inglott
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1953
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Miss Prism
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1952
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In this whimsical fantasy, a mild-mannered writer of wild adventure novels for young girls finds himself presented with an...
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1952
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The world of provincial British theatre is given a gentle going over in Curtain Up. Short of funds, a small-town repertory...
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Catherine Beckwith/Jeremy St. Claire
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1952
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Most of this hectic British comedy takes place in an ancient Scottish castle. The British National Coal Board, following a...
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Miss Nicholson
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1952
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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1951
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Based on a play by Pepine de Felipe, Her Favorite Husband is a British comedy set in Italy. Housewife Jean Kent is bemused by...
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Mrs. Dotherington
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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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Miss Muriel Whitchurch
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1950
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Passport to Pimlico is one of the most charmingly whimsical Ealing Studios comedies of the late 1940s-early 1950s. As a...
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1949
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Though Errol Flynn was well past his prime (and obviously well lubricated in certain scenes), he rises to the occasion of The...
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1949
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Based on the play by Peter Blackmore, Miranda was the first of two British comedies starring Glynis Johns as a mischievous...
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Nurse Carey
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1948
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This romantic comedy is set in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. It tells the story of a professional duelist who...
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1947
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Director Anthony Asquith's first postwar effort, While the Sun Shines was based on a play by frequent Asquith collaborator...
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1947
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Madame Arcati
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1945
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The Yellow Canary was one of several wartime collaborations between British producer-director Herbert Wilcox and Hollywood's...
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Mrs. Towcester
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1944
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English without Tears is a gentle satire of the temporary relaxation of class barriers in wartime England. Michael Wilding...
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1944
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Rowena Ventnor
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1943
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The old reliable plot device known as premarital hanky-panky was the basis of the Esther McCracken stage play Quiet Wedding....
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1941
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Based on a stage play by M. J. Farrell and John Perry, Spring Meeting stars Enid-Stamp Taylor and Michael Wilding as Tiny and...
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1941
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British author W.W. Jacobs, whose love of the sea and seafarers permeated everything he wrote, was responsible for the story...
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1937
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1937
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A young woman, desiring to be wealthy, attempts to smuggle French jewels into America. When her boat docks, she is...
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1937
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African-American actor/singer Paul Robeson had to travel to England in the 1930s to seek out dignified film roles. In Big...
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1937
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Although Neil Grant's stage play Dusty Ermine enjoyed a 250-performance run in London, screenwriters Du Garde Peach and...
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1936
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In this drama, a deliciously nasty villain endeavors to steal a successful shipping firm from an honest man. To get the...
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1936
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