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The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) Frank Launder, Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. Read More »
Hue and Cry (1947) Charles Crichton, Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip’s wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. Read More »
An Inspector Calls (1954) Guy Hamilton, Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Olga Lindo
Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust English family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector Read More »
School for Scoundrels (1960) Robert Hamer, Hal E. Chester, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Comedy
Endlessly finding himself on the wrong end of a situation, businessman Henry Palfrey seeks help at the College of Lifemanship run by the cunning Mr. Potter. Read More »
Folly to Be Wise (1952) Frank Launder, Alastair Sim, Elizabeth Allan, Roland Culver, Comedy
A newly-arrived army padre is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Read More »
The Ruling Class (1972) Peter Medak, Peter O’Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Comedy, Drama, Musical
A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Read More »
The Green Man (1956) Robert Day, Basil Dearden, Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Comedy
Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. Read More »
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939) Walter Forde, Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Linden Travers, Crime, Drama
It comes as no surprise when Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant, Sergeant Bingham, go to enjoy the winds and rains on their annual seaside vacation, when they run into a “busman’s holiday.” Read More »
Inspector Hornleigh (1939) Eugene Forde, Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Miki Hood, Comedy, Mystery, Crime
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Read More »
This Man Is News (1938) David MacDonald, Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
David Kier, one of the thieves in a sensational jewel robbery and subsequent trial, is set free when the turns King’s Evidence on the other members. Read More »
The Doctor’s Dilemma (1958) Anthony Asquith, Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Alastair Sim, Comedy, Drama
Mrs. Dubedat loves and idolizes her artist husband, Louis, but he is dying of tuberculosis. She goes to a doctor and convinces him to save her husband. The doctor can keep only so many patients, and must choose who is worth saving, but is convinced that Louis’ artistic talents make him worthy.
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Left Right and Centre (1959) Sidney Gilliat, Ian Carmichael, Alastair Sim, Patricia Bredin, Comedy, Romance
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
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Green for Danger (1946) Sidney Gilliat, Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
In a rural English hospital during WWII, a postman dies on the operating table. One of the nurses states that she has proof of who the murderer is. The facetious Inspector Cockrill suspects one of the five doctors and nurses who were in the operating theater to be the assassin. But four poisonous pills have disappeared….
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