Alastair Sim
Bekannt für: Acting
Geburtstag: 1900-10-09
Geburtsort: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Auch bekannt als: Аластер Сим
Stage Fright
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Veröffentlichung : 1950.02.23Popularität : 12.44
The Millionairess
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1960.10.18Popularität : 4.738
The Belles of St. Trinian's
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1954.09.28Popularität : 8.438
The Ruling Class
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;...
Veröffentlichung : 1972.09.13Popularität : 9.225
Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show...
Veröffentlichung : 1951.11.28Popularität : 11.693
A Romance in Flanders
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.01.01Popularität : 1.155
Green for Danger
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
Veröffentlichung : 1946.12.07Popularität : 5.605
Geordie
Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength....
Veröffentlichung : 1955.09.02Popularität : 2.168
School for Scoundrels
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car...
Veröffentlichung : 1960.03.24Popularität : 4.675
Hue and Cry
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1947.02.01Popularität : 3.843
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
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,...
Veröffentlichung : 1957.12.01Popularität : 3.602
Waterloo Road
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.
Veröffentlichung : 1945.02.05Popularität : 3.196
An Inspector Calls
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1954.03.16Popularität : 12.477
Laughter in Paradise
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1951.06.01Popularität : 2.986
Cottage to Let
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.09.06Popularität : 5.768
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The...
Veröffentlichung : 1950.03.08Popularität : 4.396
The Green Man
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing...
Veröffentlichung : 1956.12.21Popularität : 2.595
Rogue Male
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1976.09.22Popularität : 2.674
The Prodigal Daughter
An elderly priest recruits a young woman as housekeeper in the presbytery he shares with two young priests, but temptation and jealousy soon sew...
Veröffentlichung : 1975.01.01Popularität : 1.278
Left Right and Centre
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl...
Veröffentlichung : 1959.06.23Popularität : 3.131
London Belongs to Me
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his...
Veröffentlichung : 1948.11.05Popularität : 15.596
Innocents in Paris
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
Veröffentlichung : 1953.07.22Popularität : 3.062
The Squeaker
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.11.11Popularität : 2.824
This Man in Paris
A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
Veröffentlichung : 1939.07.01Popularität : 2.096
The Doctor's Dilemma
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.
Veröffentlichung : 1959.01.01Popularität : 4.551
Inspector Hornleigh
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham,...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.03.07Popularität : 1.485
Escapade
An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.
Veröffentlichung : 1955.08.05Popularität : 2.301
The Terror
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,...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.05.02Popularität : 2.407
Folly to Be Wise
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1952.12.04Popularität : 2.513
A Fire Has Been Arranged
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1935.06.01Popularität : 1.592
Sailing Along
A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.04.15Popularität : 0.602
The Riverside Murder
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1935.03.02Popularität : 3.455
Keep Your Seats, Please
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....
Veröffentlichung : 1936.08.01Popularität : 1.032
Alf's Button Afloat
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.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.06.30Popularität : 1.12
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.05.17Popularität : 1.491
Let the People Sing
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
Veröffentlichung : 1942.08.11Popularität : 1.64
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
Veröffentlichung : 1939.12.01Popularität : 1.295
Captain Boycott
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt....
Veröffentlichung : 1947.08.26Popularität : 3.444
This Man Is News
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.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.09.16Popularität : 1.115
Climbing High
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.10.31Popularität : 0.957
Late Extra
A newspaper reporter sets out to track down the murderer of a policeman.
Veröffentlichung : 1935.11.19Popularität : 1.114
Troubled Waters
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1936.02.01Popularität : 1.212
Gangway
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
Veröffentlichung : 1937.08.19Popularität : 0.935
Festival in Edinburgh
A look at some of the events that took place as part of the 1954 Edinburgh Festival.
Veröffentlichung : 1955.01.01Popularität : 0.741
The Mysterious Mr. Davis
A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner
Veröffentlichung : 1939.12.01Popularität : 1.173
The Littlest Horse Thieves
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1976.05.26Popularität : 3.639
A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...
Veröffentlichung : 1971.12.21Popularität : 3.176
The Man in the Mirror
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1936.10.15Popularität : 0.786
The Anatomist
To acquire a fresh supply of cadavers for use in his medical school experiments, Dr. Knox turns two of his inept students into graverobbers.
Veröffentlichung : 1956.02.06Popularität : 2.584
Lady Godiva Rides Again
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....
Veröffentlichung : 1951.10.25Popularität : 0.828
Strange Experiment
Doctors perform brain surgery to reform a hardened criminal
Veröffentlichung : 1937.04.26Popularität : 0.523
The General's Day
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.
Veröffentlichung : 1972.11.20Popularität : 0.974
The Big Noise
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.
Veröffentlichung : 1936.01.01Popularität : 1.124
Royal Flash
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1975.10.10Popularität : 2.468
The Private Secretary
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
Veröffentlichung : 1935.08.26Popularität : 1.25
Law and Disorder
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.07.06Popularität : 0.861
To See Such Fun
Compilation of classic British comedy moments
Veröffentlichung : 1977.11.01Popularität : 1.43