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Alfie Bass - what members say

Hell Drivers review by from KEYWORTH

5 March 2004
...prize. A great macho movie with a superb cast including Herbert Lom, Sid James, Alfie Bass, William Hartnell and a young Sean Connery. Great to see Marjorie Rhodes in thi... Read customer review

I Only Arsked review by HD from Birmingham

The Army Game 17 February 2005
... Arabia to guard a sultan?s oil rig. Accompanying him are the familiar faces of Alfie Bass (Excused boots Bisley), Norman Rossington (Cup cake), Bernie Bresslaw (Popeye P... Read customer review

The Lavender Hill Mob review by A customer from London, England

Ealing Comedy not the best 18 May 2004
...looked a little rushed. Alec Guinness & Stanley Holloway are great together but Alfie Bass & Sid James are vastly underused. There's an early cameo by Audrey Hepburn (bli... Read customer review

Alfie Bass - filmography

Danger UXB (4 discs) on DVD (1979)
Starring: Anthony Andrews, Steven Grives, Alfie Bass
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax, Roy Ward Baker
Certificate:
This intense TV series follows a British EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) unit on various missions during the Second World War. Anthony Andrews stars as Lieutenant Brian Ash, one of the soldiers who must diffuse German aerial bombs that have not exploded--and may be fitted with booby traps. This ..read more »

72% from 553 members

Come Play With Me on DVD (1977)
Starring: Mary Millington, Alfie Bass, Irene Handl
Director: George Harrison Marks
Certificate:
A sex-comedy tale about two master counterfeiters who run off with the duplicating plates and take refuge in an exclusive health farm staffed by sex-starved nurses.

45% from 496 members

Up The Junction on DVD (1968)
Starring: Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Adrienne Posta
Director: Peter Collinson, Bob Kellett
Certificate:
A girl from a rich family in Chelsea is bored and decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea. She gets a flat and starts working in a factory and makes some friends there. One of her friends is pregnant but abortion is illegal ...

69% from 862 members

Doctor In Clover on DVD (1966)
Starring: Noel Purcell, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
In this comic installment of the DOCTOR series, another young doctor (Leslie Phillips) attempts to improve his career and his love life.

62% from 406 members

The Fearless Vampire Killers on DVD (1966)
Starring: Jack MacGowran, Sharon Tate, Alfie Bass
Director: Roman Polanski
Certificate:
A pair of bumbling vampire-hunters attempts to destroy an undead nobleman and his cronies and rescue a buxom maiden in actor/director Roman Polanski's playful update of the venerable vampire genre. Bat expert and vampire obsessive Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) barely survives his journey ..read more »

63% from 1,688 member

Gideon's Way - The Complete Series (7 discs) (1965)
Starring: John Gregson, Gerald Harper, Alfie Bass
Certificate:
Features the complete twenty six episodes from the classic crime thriller series. Episodes include: 'State Visit', 'The V Men', 'The Firebug', 'The Big Fix', 'The Housekeeper', 'The Lady-Killer', 'To Catch A Tiger', 'Big Fish, Little Fish', 'The White Rat' and more...

64% from 213 members
Not available for rental

Alfie on DVD (1965)
Starring: Michael Caine, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
In ALFIE, Michael Caine stars as the title character, a guiltless London lothario whose only pleasure in life seems to be a good time--he has a date with a different woman for each day of the week. After accidentally impregnating his live-in girlfriend, Gilda (Julia Foster), Alfie takes a vacation ..read more »

64% from 8,322 members

The Millionairess on DVD (1960)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Vittorio De Sica
Director: Anthony Asquith
Certificate:
Anthony Asquith, more famous for his direction of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION, here adapts the lighter, though still socially conscious Shaw play, THE MILLIONAIRESS. Sophia Loren, as the beautiful, statuesque heiress, Epifinia, can't find a man who measures up to her late father's marriage test...read more »

52% from 398 members

Bootsie And Snudge - Series 1 - Complete (1960)
Starring: Clive Dunn, Alfie Bass, Robert Dorning
Director: none
Certificate:
Spinning off from Granada's phenomenally successful sitcom The Army Game, Bootsie and Snudge charts the Civvy Street misadventures of former National Serviceman 'Excused Boots' Bisley and his bullying sergeant, Claude Snudge, now employed within the august environs of a gentlemen's club. Alfie Bass ..read more »

50% from 6 members
Not available for rental

Hell Drivers (1957)
Starring: Stanley Baker, Patrick McGoohan, Herbert Lom
Director: Cy Endfield
Certificate:
An ex-con's struggle for survival in the world of ballast haulage.

70% from 414 members
Not available for rental

Sailor Beware! on DVD (1956)
Starring: Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Ronald Lewis
Director: Gordon Parry
Certificate:
Peggy Mount stars as the world's most terrifying mother in law in this British Comedy favourite based on the hugely successful stage farce!

72% from 103 members

Svengali on DVD (1954)
Starring: Hildegarde Neff, Donald Wolfit, Derek Bond
Director: Noel Langley
Certificate:
Svengali is a masterful and menacing hypnotist, bearded and unkempt, who draws a young woman, Trilby, into his lair. She has worked as a nude model for many artists and now, cajoled by Svengali's manipulative gift, she leaves behind her family in order to pursue a singing career on the concert ..read more »

52% from 25 members

Make Me An Offer on DVD (1954)
Starring: Richard O'Sullivan, Mark Baker, Alfie Bass
Director: Cyril Frankel
Certificate:
A struggling antiques dealer finds the answer to his financial problems when he stumbles across a precious vase - but needs to pull out every trick in the book to win his prize!

61% from 98 members

The Square Ring on DVD (1953)
Starring: Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Bill Owen
Director: Basil Dearden, Michael Relph
Certificate:
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

65% from 65 members

Brandy For The Parson on DVD (1951)
Starring: Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth More, Kenneth More
Director: John Eldridge
Certificate:
Bill Harper (James Donald) and Petronilla Brand (Jean Lodge), a young couple on a yachting holiday together, become involved with Tony Rackham (Kenneth More), who is smuggling brandy from France to a respectable London wine merchants. Through various mishaps, Bill and Petronilla find themselves ..read more »

55% from 112 members

The Lavender Hill Mob on DVD (1951)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James
Director: Charles Crichton
Certificate:
Comedy about a meek bank clerk who plans a theft from his own bank.

72% from 7,990 members

The Lavender Hill Mob - Blu-ray (1951)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James
Director: Charles Crichton
Certificate:
In Ealing Studio's classic crime caper THE LAVENDER HILL MOB, Alec Guinness plays Mr. Holland, a fussy and unnecessarily overprotective bank supervisor. However, unbeknowst to his employers the Bank of England, he is the leader of the titular crime gang. So, on the day that a gold bullion lorry is ..read more »

80% from 168 members

Ealing Comedy Bonus Material - Forever E... on DVD
Starring: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Arthur Lowe
Director: Charles Crichton, Alexander Mackendrick, Robert
Certificate:
A look back at the days of Ealing comedies...

62% from 3,202 members

The Army Game - Vol. 2 (3 discs)
Starring: Bill Fraser, Alfie Bass, William Hartnell
Director: Eric Fawcett, Gordon Flemyng
Certificate:
The second of two volumes containing every episode remaining in the archives of the immensely popular army-based sitcom from the 1950s in which a group of conscripts are determined to dodge duty and have fun while they are serving out their time.

63% from 74 members
Not available for rental

The Army Game - Vol. 1 (3 discs)
Starring: Bill Fraser, Alfie Bass, Frank Williams
Certificate:
A colossal success in its day, THE ARMY GAME featured the humorous shenanigans of a mismatched bunch of National Service conscripts assigned to the Surplus Ordnance Department at Nether Hopping. The series - which ran for 154 episodes over five years - featured the talents of William Hartnell, ..read more »

54% from 191 members
Not available for rental

I Only Arsked on DVD
Starring: Bernard Bresslaw, Charles Hawtrey, Michael Medwin
Director: Montgomery Tully
Certificate:
An Arab King who finds oil in his country, faces civil unrest. He recruits the services of a crack British Army Brigade... Well at least the services of seven men from Army Stores!

53% from 187 members

Alfie Bass facts

5 most recent films

Danger UXB - 3.5 stars
Come Play With Me - 2.5 stars
Up The Junction - 3.5 stars
Doctor In Clover - 3.0 stars
The Fearless Vampire Killers - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Lavender Hill Mob - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Danger UXB - 3.5 stars
Sailor Beware! - 3.5 stars
The Lavender Hill Mob - 3.5 stars
Hell Drivers - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Bootsie And Snudge - Series 1 - Complete - 2.5 stars
Svengali - 2.5 stars
Come Play With Me - 2.5 stars
The Millionairess - 2.5 stars
I Only Arsked - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Bill Fraser - 9 times - show films
Charles Hawtrey - 6 times - show films
William Hartnell - 5 times - show films
Sid James - 5 times - show films
Bernard Bresslaw - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 13 times - show films
Ferdinand Fairfax - 5 times - show films
Roy Ward Baker - 5 times - show films
Gordon Flemyng - 4 times - show films
Eric Fawcett - 4 times - show films