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Leo Franklyn

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#1The Night We Dropped a Clanger

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as B.R. Belling

5.8 / 10
ComedyWar

During WWII, a dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa. An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.

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#2Keep Fit

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Racing Tough

6.3 / 10
Comedy

A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.

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#3Nothing Barred

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Barger

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?

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#4And the Same to You

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Rev. Sydney Mullet

5.9 / 10
Comedy

Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his budding boxing career a secret, with he and his tough-talking promoter Wally Burton both pretending to be devout 'men of the cloth'.

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#5The Night We Got the Bird

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Victor

6.3 / 10
Comedy

Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.

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#6Come on George!

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Bannerman's Trainer

6.0 / 10
Comedy

George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins

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#7The Piano

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Edgar

9.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Play about an elderly couple who don't want to be moved from the house in which they have lived all their lives, but may be forced to as they live in a designated redevelopment area. The major point as far as they're concerned is that their piano won't fit in one of the new council places they have been offered.

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#8Splendid Fellows

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Thompson (as Leo Franklin)

7.0 / 10
Adventure

The Hon. Montmoroncy Ralston (Frank Leighton) is a monocled Englishman of the old school, with valet and plus fours, who sails for Australia after an argument with his father. In a Sydney two-up school, he makes friends with Jim McBride (Frank Bradley), a dinkum grazier, who invites Monty out to his station, where he meets the Reverend Stanhope (Eric Colman), a "flying padre" who uses a plane to tour his parish. Monty persuades his father to buy a new plane and enters it in the Centenary Air Race from London to Melbourne. But as he gets into the racing, Monty hears that Stanhope's old plane has crashed in remote country, and he gives up the race to fly to his rescue.

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