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Alastair Sim
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Filmography
Alastair Sim - what members say
review by from cambs
As sweet as a humbug 7 July 2004
review by A customer from Kent, England
Charming 18 August 2004
review by Lelboy from london
One of Ealing's best. 14 May 2008
Alastair Sim - filmography
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The Littlest Horse Thieves
(1977)
Starring: Alastair Sim, Peter Barkworth
Director: Charles Jarrott
Certificate: 
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 children plan to steal them to keep them safe.
 
77%
from 8 members
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Rogue Male
(1976)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim
Director: Clive Donner
Certificate:
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In 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke took aim at Adolph Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot missed its mark...
68%
from 76 members
Currently unavailable
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The Ruling Class
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe
Director: Peter Medak
Certificate: 
A sprawling, bursting-at-the-seams send-up of the in-grown eccentricities of the British upper class with Peter O'Toole as one of the least crazy of the English blue-bloods -- he thinks he's Jesus Christ. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actor--Peter O'Toole.
57%
from 532 members
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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
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Make Mine Mink
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, hattie Jacques
Director: Robert Hamer, Robert Asher, John Boulting
Certificate:
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When Dame Beatrice (Athene Syler) retires from charitable work, she finds her life rather empty. Suddenly an irresistible request to help unfortunate orphans comes along, and inspired by her maid's chequered past, takes on one final charitable challenge. An incident with a neighbours mink coat ..read more »
66%
from 598 members
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The Naked Truth
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Peter Sellers
Director: Mario Zampi, Robert Hamer, John Boulting
Certificate:
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The greedy editor of a trashy scandal magazine is confronted by several of the individuals whose lives are erroneously and luridly described in the tabloid. Their attempts to stop the publication of articles concerning themselves lead to a series of amusing events.
67%
from 845 members
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The Green Man
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: George Cole, Alastair Sim
Director: Basil Dearden, Mario Zampi, Robert Day
Certificate: 
Alistair Sim plays a mild, innocuous little watchmaker who spends his off-hours as a professional assassin. His present target is windbag cabinet member Raymond Huntley. After various misfire attempts, Sim plants a bomb in a small radio and waits for the tube to warm up--but the authorities by now ..read more »
73%
from 478 members
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Geordie
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Alastair Sim
Director: Mario Zampi, Frank Launder
Certificate:
Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. At the age of 21, he displays a talent for hammer-throwing, and is selected to represent Britain in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia.
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from 198 members
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Belles of St. Trinian's
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Beryl Reid, George Cole, Alastair Sim
Director: Frank Launder
Certificate:
The Headmistress of St. Trinian's, the renowned establishment for the education of young ladies, faces a few problems with her students. The unruly schoolgirls are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of ..read more »
69%
from 3,192 members
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An Inspector Calls
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Brian Worth
Director: Guy Hamilton
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The comfortable complacency of the British Birling family is upset when Inspector Poole (Alastair Sim) comes calling. An impoverished young working girl named Eva Smith (Jane Wenham) has committed suicide, and Poole hopes that the Birlings will help him find out why. As the evening progresses, a ..read more »
76%
from 1,673 member
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Folly to Be Wise
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Alastair Sim
Director: Mario Zampi, Frank Launder
Certificate:
Comedy maestro Alastair Sim stars as Captain Paris, an exasperated army chaplain and entertainments officer of a conscripted battalion. Attempting to put on a show for his battalion, it's hardly surprising his big idea for fun and games is a Brains Trust. Amazingly the punters flood in but his ..read more »
67%
from 174 members
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Scrooge
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Kathleen Harrison
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
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Widely considered to be the definitive of the many film versions of Charles Dickens' classic novel is this 1951 British adaptation, starring Alastair Sim (entitled Scrooge in its U.K. release). Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge, a London miser who, despite his wealth, refuses to make charitable ..read more »
72%
from 2,043 members
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London Belongs To Me
(1948)
Starring: Alastair Sim
Director: Sidney Gilliat
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Alastair Sim, Richard Attenborough, Joyce Carey and Fay Compton head an all-star cast in this classic British comedy crime drama set in pre-war London and produced by the acclaimed team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. Christmas Eve, 1938. The lives of all those living in a rooming house in ..read more »
66%
from 211 members
Currently unavailable
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Hue and Cry
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler, Douglas Barr
Director: Charles Crichton
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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 of the Ealing comedies.
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from 1,136 member
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Alastair Sim facts
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...A classic adaptation of Dicken's greatest tale . Alastair Sim is simply sensational as the grizzled old miser, whether refusing to pay a halfpenny for more bread or dismiss...
