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Appendix 1: Synopses of films

Carry On Spying

Gerald Thomas, Anglo Amalgamated, UK 1964.

Hattie Jacques; Kenneth Williams; Joan Sims; Sid James.

Ninth in the long running Carry On series: here the successful
formula of crude stereotyping and slapstick comedy is deployed
in a spy thriller format in which the British team faces the
evil STENCH network. The varied European settings and the
relatively lavish displays of technology constitute a direct
reference to the contemporary James Bond films.

Conflict

Curtis Bernhardt, Warner, US 1945.

Humphrey Bogart; Sydney Greenstreet; Alexis Smith; Rose Hobart.

'A man murders his wife and is apparently haunted by her; but the
odd happenings have been arranged by a suspicious psychiatrist¹.
Halliwell 1987. Though released in 1945 the film was completed
in August 1943.

The Corn is Green

Irving Rapper, Warner, US 1945.

Bette Davis; Nigel Bruce; IUiys Williams; John Dall; Joan Lorring.

•In 1895 Miss Moffat starts a village school for Welsh miners,
and after some tribulations sees one of them off to Oxford'.
Halliwell 1987.

The Curse of Frankenstein

Terence Fisher, Hammer, UK 1957.

Peter Cushing; Christopher Lee; Hazel Court; Robert Urquhart.

'A lurid revamping of the 1931 Frankenstein, this time with
severed eyeballs and a peculiarly unpleasant and uncharacterised
creature, all in gory colour. It set the trend in nasty horrors
from which we have all suffered since, and launched Hammer
Studios on a long and profitable career of Charnelry'. Halliwell
1987.

The Dam Busters

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