Search results for "Alastair Sim"
Stage Fright (1950)

Stage Fright (1950)

Stage Fright (1950)
IMDb: 7.0
110 min

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

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Genre: Thriller
An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls
IMDb: 7.5
80 min

Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known…

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The Happiest Days of Your Life

The Happiest Days of Your Life

The Happiest Days of Your Life
IMDb: 7.3
81 min

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

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Genre: Comedy
The Belles of St. Trinian’s

The Belles of St. Trinian’s

The Belles of St. Trinian’s
IMDb: 6.8
91 min

The arrival of Sultan's daughter Princess Fatima at England's famous and prestigious 'School for Young Ladies' precipitates even more chaos than usual. Her father's horse Arab Boy is due to…

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Genre: Comedy
Rogue Male

Rogue Male

Rogue Male
IMDb: 6.7
103 min

Early in 1939 Sir Robert Hunter (Peter O'Toole) takes aim at Adolf Hitler (Michael Sheard) with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by…

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Genre: Drama, TV Movie, War
School for Scoundrels (1960)

School for Scoundrels (1960)

School for Scoundrels (1960)
IMDb: 7.4
94 min

Based on the Stephen Potter "One Upmanship" and "Lifemanship" books, Henry Palfrey tries hard to impress but always loses out to the rotter Delauney. Then he discovers the Lifeman college…

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Genre: Comedy
Scrooge (1951)

Scrooge (1951)

Scrooge (1951)
IMDb: 8.1
86 min

Stubbornly refusing to believe in Christmas and to be separated from his inexhaustible wealth, the Victorian money lender and parsimonious recluse, Ebenezer Scrooge, can't be bothered with the destitute during…

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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let
IMDb: 6.8
90 min

A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention when not only the new tenant but a London evacuee and a downed fighter pilot all move in….

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Green for Danger

Green for Danger

Green for Danger
IMDb: 7.5
91 min

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…

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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Millionairess

The Millionairess

The Millionairess
IMDb: 5.5
90 min

London-based millionairess Epifania (Sophia Loren) is attracted to Dr. Kabir (MD from Delhi and PhD from Calcutta), who is more intent on treating patients. When she persists, he confides in…

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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s

Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s

Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s
IMDb: 6.5
86 min

To further the aims of the St Trinian's Marriage Bureau run by Flash Harry, the school contrives to win a competition with a European "Goodwill" trip as prize, to the…

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Genre: Comedy
The Green Man

The Green Man

The Green Man
IMDb: 7.2
80 min

Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is off…

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Genre: Comedy
The Ruling Class

The Ruling Class

The Ruling Class
IMDb: 7.4
154 min

A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ….

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Genre: Drama
Laughter in Paradise

Laughter in Paradise

Laughter in Paradise
IMDb: 7.1
93 min

Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives. But his will has one last joke – they each have to undertake a task…

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Genre: Comedy
Hue and Cry

Hue and Cry

Hue and Cry
IMDb: 6.8
82 min

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. The first…

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Genre: Comedy, Crime