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Your Favourite British Films Name your favourite British film or make a case for an underrated classic.


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That's the thing. So many are 'public domain' it's hard to tell what the quality will be like.

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My favourite British film and one I enjoy more each time I see it.

And it gives me the excuse to post a picture of my favourite actress of the period: Linden Travers
Ah yes, lovely Linden Travers - she had such gorgeous eyes.
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Charters and Caldicott, the bumbling friends in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, were not added just for comic relief. They were symbolic of a peculiarly British obstinacy in the face of Nazi aggression, says Matthew Sweet

Saturday December 29, 2007
The Guardian

... And then, the following year, Hitchcock, searching around for one last film to make before boarding the boat to America, picked up Launder and Gilliat's script and announced his intention to film it - if they would write a new opening and add some violent twists to the last reel. .

Wasn't Jamaica Inn his final British movie (1939) ?
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