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Esma Ellen Charlotte Littman, credited as Esme or Esma Cannon, was a diminutive (4 feet 7 inches) Australian-born character actress and comedian, who moved to Britain in the early 1930s. Although she frequently appeared on television in her latter years, Cannon is best known as a film actress, with a lengthy career in British productions from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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01 December 1953
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life.
21 June 1964
A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion.
01 November 1938
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force.
02 December 1948
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
07 August 1949
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
31 January 1960
Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy.
01 September 1942
A London fishmonger helps a young woman evade her unwanted upcoming marriage by pretending to be her fiancé, a big game hunter from Africa.
04 March 1939
An Englishwoman who writes novels meets a farmer who has just killed his nagging wife.
28 July 1944
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey.
23 December 1956
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
21 March 1949
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job.
07 June 1949
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
11 December 1962
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others).
01 November 1960
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition.
02 November 1955
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
10 February 1938
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work.
17 May 1963
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
01 February 1949
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
12 July 1960
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit.
01 May 1953
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
15 February 1955
Multiple stories unfold over the course of twenty-four hours in and around a bustling central airport.
04 September 1956
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley.
01 March 1939
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
09 June 1944
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
28 October 1958
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather.
17 May 1962
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
15 September 1961
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives.
02 February 1960
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens.
01 November 1961
A bookmaker struggles to cope with his two mothers-in-law.
06 September 1961
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker.
11 May 1940
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
03 January 1963
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse.
21 September 1942
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
21 August 1944
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
15 May 1950
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
05 August 1947
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
03 August 1939
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
28 May 1959
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.
29 December 1998
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the cast.
04 April 1961
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
22 February 1960
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station.
12 March 1962
Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from.
18 August 1959
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
01 October 1956
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
29 June 1942
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
21 June 1954
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
01 June 1963
Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife.
01 August 1952
A greedy woman tries to poison her nephew's bride in a dark mansion.
01 December 1959
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
22 March 1950
A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts.
08 July 1946
After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again.
14 December 1953
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays.
01 January 1937
British comedy crime film. Richard Fordyce released from prison after serving a sentence for counterfeiting of which he was innocent, determines to find out who framed him.
01 March 1939
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters.
23 August 1936
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
14 December 1962
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
03 July 1939
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
10 November 1977
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film studios to unwrap some rib-tickling moments from the series.
08 May 1944
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke.
13 August 1947
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home.