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An enjoyable puzzle from Ifor. Some 'foot in the door' clues, and others quite testing.
I don't see the word play for 35a, though I have the answer.
H1982, the letter strings are names as they appear, not anagrammed.

To clarify, anagrams of the letter strings produce actual names in the grid.

Thanks, Mattrom

35 - casually refers to definition, and a C is left off the answer for the wordplay element

Ah! Thanks, h1982. I was trying to work out a word with the first letter moved along.

I couldn't see where to make the last change yesterday, but spotted it fairly quickly this morning. Very good puzzle from Ifor.

quisling - I must be very dim today. The answer to 2A, surely an anagram, doesn't contain the final letter of the character I need to put there (letters 1,3 and 5 check, so I'm happy that he goes there). What have I failed to see?

Cockie, 2a is an anagram, as you say. The last letter of the answer is not part of the letter string which needs to be reordered, but the other seven can be rearranged to form the character. You should have letters 1, 3, 5 and 7 from the crossing answers

The first and third letters of 5d are the same, in case you have a different word there

Oddly, in the film, the character in 2A is *****D. Very misleading. I see the correct spelling is given in other - presumably primary - sources. Still don't know the last bit though.

I never found that misleading reference, fortunately. Look in the grid for a synonym of the first noun in the phrase spelt by the removed letters, and replace it