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John Boulting
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John Boulting
I'm all right Jack
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29 editions published between 1959 and 2010 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 370 libraries worldwide "Peter Sellers won his only British Academy Award for his career-making performance as Socialist shop steward Fred Kite in this brilliant class-struggle comedy. Ian Carmichael ... co-stars as naive Oxford graduate Stanley Windrush, who is hired as a common worker at his wealthy uncle's missile factory and quickly becomes a pawn in the battle between management and Mr. Kite's labor union. But can both sides stop a complete nitwit from single-handedly destroying the economy while becoming the symbol of integrity for an entire nation?"--Container.
Heavens above
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18 editions published between 1963 and 2009 in English and Multiple languages and held by 222 libraries worldwide An idealistic clergyman is accidentally assigned to a wealthy parish where he insists on ministering to the rich and poor alike, infuriating the town, the religious hierarchy, and the government.
Carlton-Browne of the F.O
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5 editions published between 1991 and 2009 in English and held by 129 libraries worldwide When news reaches Britain's Foreign Office indicating rich mineral deposits on the small island of Gaillardia, interest in the ex-colony is re-awakened, and bumbling envoy Cadogen de Vere Carlton-Browne is sent to investigate.
Brighton rock
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32 editions published between 1947 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 84 libraries worldwide Richard Attenborough is Pinkie, a ruthless and sadistic young criminal, who commits a murder and then marries the only witness to cover his tracks. A trail of killings and double crossings lead to his eventual downfall, when savage justice is finally meted out in a thrilling and memorable climax.
There's a girl in my soup
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4 editions published between 1970 and 2003 in English and held by 51 libraries worldwide A saucy romance about an amorous gourmet whose goose is cooked when he falls for a giddy young temptress.
Private's progress
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7 editions published between 1989 and 2010 in English and held by 37 libraries worldwide Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself too innocent and too unfit for army life and is passed over for a commission. This leads him to meets up with wily Private Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too.
Lucky Jim
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9 editions published between 1962 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 37 libraries worldwide An accident-prone junior history lecturer at a small university begins a campaign to insinuate himself into the good graces of the head of his department. Instead, the luckless young academic manages to antagonize the professor, his wife, and his son.
The family way
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3 editions published between 1994 and 2008 in English and held by 27 libraries worldwide Married life is proving difficult for newlyweds Jenny (Hayley Mills) and Arthur (Hywel Bennet). With well meaning but interfering parents, nosey neighbours, and a town that thrives on gossip, can their marriage last? With all these pressures it's no wonder their personal life is suffering. Will there ever be any good news?
Lucky Jim
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1 edition published in 1986 in English and held by 26 libraries worldwide "Jim" is a junior lecturer at a small university. When his trial tenure is about to expire, he begins a campaign to insinuate himself into the good graces of the head of his department and manages to antagonize the professor, his wife, and his son.
Heavens above
by John Boulting
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2 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 16 libraries worldwide
The magic box
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9 editions published between 1951 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 12 libraries worldwide "The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here played by Robert Donat. Adapted by Eric Ambler from the controversial biography by Ray Allister, Magic Box contends that Friese-Greene was the true father of motion pictures, and not such upstarts as W.K.L. Dickson and Thomas Edison. Told in flashback, the film details Friese-Greene's tireless experiments with the "moving image," leading inexorably to a series of failures and disappoints, as others hog the credit for the protagonist's discoveries. The huge cast includes such British film luminaries as Joyce Grenfell, Miles Malleson, Michael Redgrave, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams, Richard Attenborough, Peter Ustinov, Cecil Parker, Kay Walsh, and, best of all, Laurence Olivier as the confused bobby who witnesses Friese-Greene's first motion picture demonstration."--Www.allmovie.com.
I'm alright Jack
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3 editions published between 1959 and 2004 in English and German and held by 9 libraries worldwide Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
The guinea pig
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3 editions published between 1948 and 2007 in English and held by 7 libraries worldwide This film is set in the years just after the Second World War, when education in England is beginning to undergo a radical change. Jack Read, a Cockney schoolboy, finds himself chosen to attend a Public School, where he is to be a guinea pig in an educational experiment. From the very beginning, he leads a miserable life, mocked by the other pupils for his rough ways and despised by his traditionally minded housemaster, Mr. Hartley. Jack is surly and suspicious, and can see little sense in many of the new rules he is expected to obey. Everything he does seems to be wrong and eventually he decides to run away. But he is prevented from taking this drastic step by Mr. Lorraine, a young master who, although sympathizing with the boy, begs him to give the school a second chance. Jack agrees, and by the next term, the headmaster has already decided that the experiment is working. Proud of this success, the head suggests that the school fund, which has been set aside for a war memorial, should be used to provide bursaries for poor boys instead. This proposal meets with considerable opposition, especially from Hartley. Angered by such prejudice, Lorraine finally hands in his resignation. But Hartley begins to see how wrong he has been and, with Jack progressing well, the experiment appears to be operating successfully on more than one guinea pig.
Soft beds and hard battles
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2 editions published between 1973 and 1998 in English and held by 7 libraries worldwide Peter Sellers plays six different characters in this raunchy World War 2 comedy set in a Parisian brothel. When the Germans march into Paris, the redoubtable Madame Grenier and her girls bid a sad farewell to her clients, and prepares to welcome the occupying Germans. It is not long before Madame and her girls are working for the resistance which earns them, at war's end, the gratitude of a very amorous French President who presents Madame Grenier with a plaque for the wall of her 'distinguished house'
Seven days to noon
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5 editions published between 1950 and 2008 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide Brilliant and pacifistic Professor Willingdon threatens to blow up the central part of London unless atomic bomb production is stopped.
Brighton rock Eight o'clock walk
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1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide Brighton rock. A fine adaptation of Graham Greene's thriller set in seedy post-war Brighton. Teenage gang leader Pinkie marries a young waitress as his alibi for murder and then decides to get rid of her. Fate takes a hand when a rival gang muscles in. --Eight o'clock walk. Attenborough is a taxi driver falsely accused of the murder of a little girl on a derelict bomb site. O'Donnell as his wife fights to prove her husband's innocence with the help of Derek Farr in a brilliant supporting performance as junior counsel for the defence. In an interesting plot twist, Farr's father played by Ian Hunter is counsel for the prosecution.
Brothers in law
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2 editions published between 1996 and 2007 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide British comedy portraying the misadventures of a young lawyer (Carmichael).
The risk
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2 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide In this tense drama, spies are chasing a scientist who has a secret formula for fighting the plague.
Young scarface
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2 editions published in 1985 in Undetermined and English and held by 3 libraries worldwide more
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Amis, Kingsley Boulting, John Boulting, Roy,--1913-2001 Church of England Clergy College teachers Comedy films Comedy films Criticism, interpretation, etc. Diplomats Drama England England--Brighton Feature films Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations Film and video adaptations Film noir Films for the hearing impaired Foreign films Gangster films Gangster films Gangsters Great Britain Great Britain.--Foreign and Commonwealth Office Greene, Graham,--1904-1991 Hackney, Alan History Honeymoons Islands Labor unions Man-woman relationships Motion pictures Murder Parents-in-law Popular culture Psychopaths Romantic comedy films Sellers, Peter,--1925-1980 Sex in marriage Social change Social classes Social history Strikes and lockouts Teenagers Thrillers (Motion pictures) Video recordings--for the hearing impaired Witnesses World War (1939-1945)
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