Launder and Gilliat - Geoff Brown. Published by British Film Institute, Paperback, 1977. Frank Launder (1906 - 1997) and Sidney Gilliat (1908 - 1994) were British film writers, directors and producers. They began writing for British films in 1928 and began writing and directing fifteen years later, in 1943. Launder contributed the original story for the classic Will Hay comedy Oh, Mr Porter! (1937); Sidney Gilliat, in his early career, worked with Frank Launder on The Lady Vanishes (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock. Gilliat and Launder made over 40 films together, founding their own production company Individual Pictures. While Launder concentrated on directing their comedies, most famously the four St Trinian's School films, Gilliat showed a preference for comedy-thrillers and dramas, including Green for Danger (1946), London Belongs to Me (1948) and State Secret (1950). Condition: Good. The pages are clean and tightly bound, with a few marks around the page edges, and light tanning arou