Esma Cannon

Esma Cannon

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.

  • Title: Esma Cannon
  • Popularity: 1.165
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1905-12-27
  • Place of Birth: Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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  • Also Known As: Esme Cannon
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Esma Cannon Movies

  • 1961
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    Carry On Regardless

    Carry On Regardless

    6.4 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    Carry On Cruising

    Carry On Cruising

    6 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    The Way Ahead

    The Way Ahead

    6.4 1944 HD

    A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to...

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  • 1961
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    Raising the Wind

    Raising the Wind

    6.6 1961 HD

    'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth...

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  • 1964
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    Hide and Seek

    Hide and Seek

    6 1964 HD

    A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with...

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  • 1977
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    That's Carry On!

    That's Carry On!

    5.8 1977 HD

    Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood...

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  • 1963
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    Carry On Cabby

    Carry On Cabby

    6.5 1963 HD

    Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears...

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  • 1937
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    The Five Pound Man

    The Five Pound Man

    1 1937 HD

    British comedy crime film. Richard Fordyce released from prison after serving a sentence for counterfeiting of which he was innocent, determines to...

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  • 1954
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    The Sleeping Tiger

    The Sleeping Tiger

    5.6 1954 HD

    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...

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  • 1960
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    No Kidding

    No Kidding

    6 1960 HD

    A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the...

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  • 1952
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    Crow Hollow

    Crow Hollow

    5.8 1952 HD

    A greedy woman tries to poison her nephew's bride in a dark mansion.

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  • 1946
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    The Years Between

    The Years Between

    6.2 1946 HD

    Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop...

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  • 1963
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    Nurse on Wheels

    Nurse on Wheels

    5.7 1963 HD

    Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes...

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  • 1958
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    Further Up the Creek

    Further Up the Creek

    6 1958 HD

    The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship...

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  • 1939
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    Trouble Brewing

    Trouble Brewing

    6 1939 HD

    Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing...

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  • 1947
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    Jassy

    Jassy

    5.4 1947 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    Here Come the Huggetts

    Here Come the Huggetts

    6.5 1948 HD

    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'...

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  • 1949
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    The Huggetts Abroad

    The Huggetts Abroad

    6.6 1949 HD

    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. So the family...

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  • 1961
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    What a Carve Up!

    What a Carve Up!

    7 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    Holiday Camp

    Holiday Camp

    6.1 1947 HD

    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...

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  • 1955
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    Out of the Clouds

    Out of the Clouds

    6 1955 HD

    A day following workers at an airport

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  • 1962
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    On the Beat

    On the Beat

    7.7 1962 HD

    Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old...

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  • 1939
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    The Nursemaid Who Disappeared

    The Nursemaid Who Disappeared

    1 1939 HD

    An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.

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  • 1959
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    I'm All Right Jack

    I'm All Right Jack

    6.634 1959 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    Poison Pen

    Poison Pen

    6.5 1939 HD

    The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

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  • 1939
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    The Spy in Black

    The Spy in Black

    6.353 1939 HD

    A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

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  • 1938
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    I See Ice

    I See Ice

    8.1 1938 HD

    George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications...

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  • 1938
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    It's in the Air

    It's in the Air

    5.6 1938 HD

    George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he...

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  • 1960
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    Inn for Trouble

    Inn for Trouble

    6.5 1960 HD

    Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally...

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  • 1940
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    Contraband

    Contraband

    6.9 1940 HD

    When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved...

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  • 1936
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    The Man Behind the Mask

    The Man Behind the Mask

    4.8 1936 HD

    A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and...

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  • 1960
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    Carry On Constable

    Carry On Constable

    6.4 1960 HD

    With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse,...

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  • 1960
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    Doctor in Love

    Doctor in Love

    5.5 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1950
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    Last Holiday

    Last Holiday

    7.3 1950 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    I Met a Murderer

    I Met a Murderer

    4.7 1939 HD

    An Englishwoman who writes novels meets a farmer who has just killed his nagging wife.

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  • 1942
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    Asking for Trouble

    Asking for Trouble

    6 1942 HD

    A London fishmonger helps a young woman evade her unwanted upcoming marriage by pretending to be her fiancé, a big game hunter from Africa....

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  • 1941
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    Quiet Wedding

    Quiet Wedding

    4.2 1941 HD

    A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

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  • 1962
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    In the Doghouse

    In the Doghouse

    6.9 1962 HD

    After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.

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  • 1956
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    Sailor Beware

    Sailor Beware

    7 1956 HD

    Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor...

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  • 1959
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    Jack the Ripper

    Jack the Ripper

    5.9 1959 HD

    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.

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  • 1950
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    Double Confession

    Double Confession

    6.1 1950 HD

    The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various...

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  • 1949
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    Vote for Huggett

    Vote for Huggett

    6.6 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    Expresso Bongo

    Expresso Bongo

    5.4 1959 HD

    A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

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  • 1950
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    Guilt Is My Shadow

    Guilt Is My Shadow

    5.2 1950 HD

    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.

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  • 1963
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    We Joined the Navy

    We Joined the Navy

    5.4 1963 HD

    Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the...

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  • 1942
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    We Serve

    We Serve

    1 1942 HD

    Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.

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  • 1956
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    Three Men in a Boat

    Three Men in a Boat

    6.3 1956 HD

    Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

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  • 1953
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    The Large Rope

    The Large Rope

    5.5 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Noose for a Lady

    Noose for a Lady

    5.7 1953 HD

    An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering...

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  • 1944
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    A Canterbury Tale

    A Canterbury Tale

    6.9 1944 HD

    Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

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  • 1949
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    Helter Skelter

    Helter Skelter

    6.2 1949 HD

    A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

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  • 1955
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    Simon and Laura

    Simon and Laura

    5.5 1955 HD

    A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.

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  • 1962
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    The Fast Lady

    The Fast Lady

    5.6 1962 HD

    A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.

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  • 1944
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    English Without Tears

    English Without Tears

    5.7 1944 HD

    While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her...

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  • 1949
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    Marry Me

    Marry Me

    4.333 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    The Steel Key

    The Steel Key

    5.5 1953 HD

    An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.

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  • 1944
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    Fanny by Gaslight

    Fanny by Gaslight

    5.7 1944 HD

    Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds...

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  • 1956
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    A Touch of the Sun

    A Touch of the Sun

    5.6 1956 HD

    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.

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  • 1960
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    The Flesh and the Fiends

    The Flesh and the Fiends

    6.5 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    The Young Mr. Pitt

    The Young Mr. Pitt

    5.4 1942 HD

    This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

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  • 1961
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    Over the Odds

    Over the Odds

    1 1961 HD

    A bookmaker struggles to cope with his two mothers-in-law.

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  • 1961
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    The Rag Trade

    The Rag Trade

    5.5 1961 HD

    The Rag Trade is a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978. The scripts were by Ronald...

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  • 1960
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    Maigret

    Maigret

    6.9 1960 HD

    BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch...

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  • 1961
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    Stryker of the Yard

    Stryker of the Yard

    1 1961 HD

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