Alastair Sim Movies

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jane Wyman

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sophia Loren

The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman;...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter O'Toole

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Alastair Sim

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Leo Genn

Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ian Carmichael

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Terry-Thomas

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Mills

An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alastair Sim

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fay Compton

Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter O'Toole

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Attenborough

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ian Carmichael

Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Edmund Lowe

A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Barry K. Barnes

Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gordon Harker

An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Mills

For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks,...

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Cast: Wilfrid Lawson

A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chesney Allen

A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jessie Matthews

This is a great rainy day/night murder mystery in a mansion that all whodunit lovers will appreciate. A woman reporter helps an inspector solve the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Basil Sydney

Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage....

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Formby

Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Flanagan

During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gordon Harker

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gordon Harker

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stewart Granger

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Barry K. Barnes

Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jessie Matthews

James Mason is teamed up once again with Virginia Cherill whom he appeared with in his debut film, 'Late Extra'. He plays a government agent (John...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Virginia Cherrill

A newspaper reporter sets out to track down the murderer of a policeman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jessie Matthews

A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Kendall

When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three...

Genre: Family

Cast: Alastair Sim

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Alastair Sim

A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Edward Everett Horton

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Leslie Banks

Doctors perform brain surgery to reform a hardened criminal

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Cast: Donald Gray

To acquire a fresh supply of cadavers for use in his medical school experiments, Dr. Knox turns two of his inept students into graverobbers.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Alastair Sim

Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pauline Stroud

When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Malcolm McDowell

A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edward Everett Horton

On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

Compilation of classic British comedy moments

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Muir

During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Cavanagh

An elderly priest recruits a young woman as housekeeper in the presbytery he shares with two young priests, but temptation and jealousy soon sew...

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Cast: Jeremy Brett

A look at some of the events that took place as part of the 1954 Edinburgh Festival.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alastair Sim