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Alastair Sim
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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.
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56%
from 369 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 »
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The Millionairess
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Vittorio De Sica
Director: Anthony Asquith
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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 »
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51%
from 332 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
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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.
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64%
from 570 members
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The Green Man
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: George Cole, Alastair Sim
Director: Basil Dearden, Mario Zampi, Robert Day
Certificate: 
Alastair Sim appears as a timid clockmaker with a part-time job - International Assassination Expert. He finds himself in real trouble when he stalks the wrong target, blowing up a boring politician instead. And now he must pay the price...
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73%
from 250 members
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Geordie
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Alastair Sim
Director: Mario Zampi, Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliant /Rob
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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 83 members
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An Inspector Calls
(1954)
Starring: Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Brian Worth
Director: Guy Hamilton
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A young girl is murdered, and an Inspector calls on a prosperous Yorkshire household investigating the sad circumstances behind her death. Each one of the family has a secret - and each one is partly responsible for the girl's fate. The determined Inspector must prove their collective guilt and the ..read more »
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from 1,157 member
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Belles of St. Trinian's
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Beryl Reid, Alistair Sim, George Cole
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 »
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69%
from 2,551 members
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Folly to Be Wise
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Alastair Sim
Director: Mario Zampi, Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliant /Rob
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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 »
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68%
from 72 members
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Scrooge
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Kathleen Harrison
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
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Ebeneezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) contentedly meanders through his life as a cruel miser until one fateful Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghosts. The spirits show him how his behavior has degenerated over the years as his heart has become colder. Using events from Scrooge's idealistic ..read more »
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from 1,848 member
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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 »
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from 198 members
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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 933 members
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Cottage To Let
(1941)
Starring: John Mills, George Cole, Michael Wilding
Director: Anthony Asquith
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A film adaptation, with the original stage actors, of one of the first war-time stage thrillers about an unsuspecting inventor who is in danger of being kidnapped by a Fifth Columnist organisation.
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Cottage To Let
to Watch Now
(1941)
Starring: Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John Mills
Director: Anthony Asquith
Certificate: 
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Run time: 91 minutes
John Barington is an inventor, testing bomb mechanisms for the Air Ministry. His laboratory is in his country house where, unknown to him, various members of his domestic staff are undercover spies. The plan is to kidnap Barington, aided by a German agent. This agent comes in the form of a wounded ..read more »
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66%
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As sweet as a humbug 7 July 2004
...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...
Charming 18 August 2004
