Warning I've used many brackets, my head's going off in many tangential directions tonight 😂

There was, a few-ple (or should that be cou-ew ?) of years ago, an Ealing Comedies Month or similar on the beeb where a run of these old greats was aired. I was in my element ! I recall watching P2P, MItWS, and Whisky Galore(do you know there was a 2016 remake ? I watched it but can't really remember much about it 🤷‍♂️ maybe as I've such strong memories of the original) as a kid, either Sunday afternoons (when anywhere/thing that WAS open, shut at 12 midday -70s/80s) or when off school ill, laid on the sofa with a sick bowl whilst mi mam delivered regular lucozade (when there was just one 'flavour' if you can call it that, and it was in a clear glass bottle with orange cellophane wrap 😀👍). [Can you imagine any sporting superstar back then endorsing 'dickness duice' -get your mind out of the gutter, that was a reference to Lockets' 'deckon gloss weturn to Nottingham, pease"]

Anyhoo, I'd like to add a number of movies I recall from my formative years to your wonderful list: -The Titfield Thunderbolt -another Ealing comedy IIRC. -The 39 Steps. -The Third Man (which's "theme I'd stake my pants on you "knowing', at least the 'theme'(in musical terms) of it, stolen for sooooo many other things over the years... D,d, D,d, D, d,D, d, D, d, D & repeat🤪... Had to research a little but, I did remember correctly ! 😀👍, although the movie's about post-World War II Allied-occupied Vienna, the theme tune has become associated, within our collective British ears at least, as 'continental', specifically French. The movie where he travels to France "Mr Bean's Holiday's uses it to comedic effect in his 'so lasilent comedy) -Almost any movie with the late, great, Norman Wisdom (I can't recall the name off the top of my head but the milkman Vs dairy on was probs one of my faves (I've a DVD somewhere, I really should dig it out). -I play ukulele so should, I suppose, mention George Formby: He was a MASSIVE star of his time.

-Pappilon -the original obviously. -I guess someone should really mention one or two of the post WW2 kind of movies... I'm not expert on those but maybe. -The Great Escape (which quite a large place in popular culture -I've seen & heard about 3-4 references to it just in the last week) -Dam Busters (detailing an example of one of the great British innovations, created by one of those slide-rule engineering gurus at the time. Barnes Wallace wasn't it ?...

....now. If you've read this far, without googling or similar for an answer, who was the British bloke who worked on the maths behind timing of spitfire mounted, machine guns ? Whose 13 Y.O. daughter got involved, when HE hit a wall, and helped him see that utilising 8, rather than 4 guns, was the answer !!!

TBH it's so difficult to choose, maybe it's not too big a leap to say we, all, should organise a pole/vite (see what I di:d there 🤪) to see what comes out tops I just looked up.this which I vaguely remember too, just in case we missed anything;: In 1999 the British Film Institute (BFI) compiled a list of the greatest British films of the 20th century...