Alfie Bass
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1921-04-08
Locus Natus: Bethnal Green, London, England, UK
Et ut: Элфи Бэсс, Элфи Басс, Алфи Басс
The Fearless Vampire Killers
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
release : 1967.11.13popularis : 13.063
The Movie Orgy
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and...
release : 1968.01.01popularis : 4.105
A Tale of Two Cities
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay....
release : 1958.02.07popularis : 4.917
Svengali
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
release : 1954.09.01popularis : 1.685
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in...
release : 1978.01.08popularis : 10.837
The Lavender Hill Mob
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
release : 1951.06.28popularis : 7.46
It Always Rains on Sunday
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
release : 1947.11.28popularis : 5.866
Alfie
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
release : 1966.03.29popularis : 9.608
Hell Drivers
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
release : 1957.07.23popularis : 5.218
The Passing Stranger
The British Passing Stranger stars Hollywood actor Lee Patterson as a deserting American GI. He drifts about until he falls in with a gang of...
release : 1954.11.30popularis : 0.643
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.
release : 1950.02.23popularis : 20.733
Come Play with Me
Two alluring young ladies live with their beautiful widowed aunt on a secluded wooded estate. The women have earned themselves quite a reputation in...
release : 1977.04.28popularis : 4.936
The Galloping Major
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they...
release : 1951.05.07popularis : 9.786
The Bespoke Overcoat
Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by...
release : 1955.11.01popularis : 6.399
I Only Arsked
A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East...
release : 1958.01.01popularis : 1.975
Make Me an Offer!
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of...
release : 1954.12.08popularis : 1.717
Holiday Camp
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend...
release : 1947.08.05popularis : 2.681
A Challenge for Robin Hood
After being falsely accused of murder, Sir Robin of Loxley takes refuge in the untamed wilderness of Sherwood Forest where he stumbles across a group...
release : 1967.07.01popularis : 5.251
Blackout
When a beautiful girl offers Casey Morrow a lot of money for a mystery job, Morrow doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is...
release : 1954.03.19popularis : 3.731
A Touch of the Sun
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
release : 1956.10.01popularis : 2.74
Behind the Headlines
Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.
release : 1956.07.01popularis : 0.641
Bindle (One of Them Days)
Based on the book of Herbert Jenkins, a comedy about a accident prone furniture remover and his mate.
release : 1966.01.01popularis : 1.792
Man on the Run
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow...
release : 1949.05.20popularis : 1.551
Moonraker
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the...
release : 1979.06.26popularis : 20.325
The Sandwich Man
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
release : 1966.07.01popularis : 2.827
The Hasty Heart
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home...
release : 1949.09.20popularis : 1.734
High Treason
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
release : 1951.11.13popularis : 1.1
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
release : 1966.10.16popularis : 9.484
Talk of a Million
A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the...
release : 1951.03.12popularis : 0.651
Derby Day
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and...
release : 1952.06.09popularis : 2.712
Soap Opera in Stockwell
A baby is snatched from outside a launderette. The manageress and customers try to work out who was responsible.
release : 1973.09.11popularis : 1.687
Brief Encounter
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with...
release : 1945.11.24popularis : 9.642
Doctor in Clover
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the...
release : 1966.03.08popularis : 2.058
Top of the Form
A con man hides out in a boys' school, posing as a professor. When the undisciplined and lazy boys have to pass a few tests, cheating becomes the...
release : 1953.02.01popularis : 0.965
Help!
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come...
release : 1965.07.29popularis : 7.876
The Square Ring
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
release : 1953.07.13popularis : 1.68
No Road Back
A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal...
release : 1957.02.04popularis : 1.299
Room to Let
Smoke bombs fail to dislodge an old busker who has taken over the kids' headquarters, an abandoned circus caravan. One of Magpie's hidden treasures,...
release : 1976.01.01popularis : 0.438
Child in the House
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and...
release : 1956.08.14popularis : 2.967
Pool of London
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
release : 1951.02.20popularis : 3.255
Boys in Brown
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in...
release : 1949.12.01popularis : 3.358
Jumping for Joy
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back...
release : 1956.01.01popularis : 1.22
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...
release : 1960.10.18popularis : 6.248
Time Is My Enemy
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
release : 1954.09.01popularis : 1.685
Treasure Hunt
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
release : 1952.06.01popularis : 1.674
The Night My Number Came Up
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small...
release : 1955.03.22popularis : 3.707
The Planter's Wife
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
release : 1952.12.04popularis : 1.313
To Dorothy, a Son
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he...
release : 1954.10.31popularis : 1.357
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent...
release : 1971.11.01popularis : 3.752
Brandy for the Parson
A young couple get involved with a smuggler
release : 1952.05.02popularis : 2.029
The Monkey's Paw
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
release : 1948.06.01popularis : 1.106
Sailor Beware
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor...
release : 1956.09.04popularis : 2.553
I Was Monty's Double
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions...
release : 1958.10.21popularis : 3.312
Johnny Frenchman
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and...
release : 1945.10.29popularis : 1.461
Up the Junction
A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.
release : 1968.01.25popularis : 3.387
Read All About It
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...
release : 1945.04.08popularis : 1.7
What's the Next Job?
Ministry of Information dramatized vocational film on assistance in finding jobs after the Second World War.
release : 1945.06.30popularis : 0.597
It Might Be You
A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.
release : 1946.07.25popularis : 1.431
A Kid for Two Farthings
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to...
release : 1955.08.15popularis : 5.205
Vice Versa
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young...
release : 1948.01.28popularis : 5.747
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves...
release : 1964.06.24popularis : 1.781
The Ship That Died of Shame
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a...
release : 1955.04.19popularis : 4.105