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- DirectorRobert DayBasil DeardenStarsAlastair SimGeorge ColeTerry-ThomasAn assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.Brilliant from beginning to end!
- DirectorMario ZampiStarsAlastair SimFay ComptonGuy MiddletonAfter a millionaire practical joker dies, his fortune is divided among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsAlastair SimJoyce GrenfellGeorge ColeThe schoolgirls of St. Trinian's are more interested in racing forms than books; as they try to get rich quick, they are abetted by the headmistress' brother.Easily the best one.
- DirectorPat JacksonStarsSidney JamesKenneth ConnorShirley EatonErnie'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. Before long, the guests begin to drop dead.A good pace and plenty of incident.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsJuliet MillsDonald SindenDonald HoustonA group of patients resides in a sanatorium and aspire to walk twice round the daffodils, which they can do when they are better.A mixture of comedy and drama. Very enjoyable and a bit different from the norm.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsTed RayJean KentLeslie PhillipsThe orderly suburban life of a 1950s English town is turned on its head when the teenage daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population. They begin to see themselves and their neighbours in a surprising new light.Quite risque for the times.
- DirectorDarcy ConyersStarsLeslie PhillipsPeggy CumminsHattie JacquesBritish comedy about the ups and downs of a London vet.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsKenneth MoreShirley Anne FieldNorman BirdScientists are looking for a man to send up to be the first man on the moon. A man immune to worry, disease, and even the common cold. They think they have found him until the impossible happens at Woomera.
- DirectorWendy ToyeStarsKenneth MoreLloyd NolanJoan O'BrienThis is the story of the riotous, romantic, exciting, astonishing and highly entertaining adventures of Lieutenant Commander "Bodger" Badger, R.N. (Kenneth More). An exceptionally likeable fellow, the Badger has one besetting sin, a shining honesty.
- DirectorCliff OwenStarsWilfrid BrambellHarry H. CorbettCarolyn SeymourAlbert Steptoe and his son Harold are junk dealers. Harold meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert, of course, is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.
- DirectorPeter SykesStarsWilfrid BrambellHarry H. CorbettDiana DorsFather and son London junk dealers must buy a replacement horse for them to stay in business. Instead they buy a greyhound, confident they will earn a fortune on the race track.An improvement over the first "Steptoe" film.
- DirectorHarry BoothStarsReg VarneyDoris HareMichael RobbinsWhen the bus company finds itself short-staffed, Inspector Blake comes up with the brilliant idea of employing female drivers. The company is delighted, but the bus crews are horrified and try to get rid of the women.
- DirectorHarry BoothStarsReg VarneyDoris HareMichael RobbinsLondon bus driver Stan Butler wants to get married and takes his chance to earn more money when he is given a new job driving a tour bus on a safari park.
- DirectorBryan IzzardStarsReg VarneyStephen LewisDoris HareAfter being fired from the bus company for crashing two buses, Stan and Jack seek bus-driving work at a holiday camp - only to find that Inspector Blake too now works there.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsSidney JamesKenneth WilliamsEric BarkerWith a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. They manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsSidney JamesKenneth WilliamsCharles HawtreyHenry VIII marries Marie of Normandy but struggles with her garlic consumption. He seeks to annul the marriage without angering her cousin, the French king, by finding legal grounds for the annulment to avoid political conflict.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsSidney JamesKenneth WilliamsCharles HawtreyFarcical misadventures by guests in an English holiday centre.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsKenneth WilliamsSidney JamesKenneth ConnorTwo Britons, Hengist and Horsa, are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Caesar.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsKenneth WilliamsHattie JacquesKenneth ConnorAn idiosyncratic group of patients wreak havoc in the men's surgical ward of Haven Hospital. They decide to take their revenge on the frosty Matron, and there is even a spot of DIY surgery!
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsKenneth WilliamsJim DaleHarry H. CorbettThe sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsKenneth WilliamsCharles HawtreyWilliam HartnellSergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But what a motley bunch they turn out to be.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsKenneth WilliamsLeslie PhillipsKenneth ConnorPupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and don't want to lose him.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsSidney JamesKenneth WilliamsCharles HawtreyDating agency owner Sidney faces challenges pairing unconventional clients, causing romantic turmoil in a quaint town. Personal entanglements arise as peculiar matches ignite jealousies and conflicts within the local romantic landscape.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsSidney JamesKenneth WilliamsCharles HawtreyA gang of thieves plans to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsSidney JamesKenneth WilliamsCharles HawtreyWC Boggs' Lavatory factory faces industrial unrest, with union rep Vic Spanner frequently calling strikes, eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes.