Alastair Sim — Actor (19)
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Inspector Hornleigh (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Inspector Hornleigh
director: Eugene Forde actor: Gordon Harker / Alastair Sim …
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
director: Walter Forde actor: Gordon Harker / Alastair Sim …
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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Hue and Cry (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hue and Cry
director: Charles Crichton actor: Alastair Sim / Jack Warner …
other title: Piccoli detectives / 5 drenge på sporet …
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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The Squeaker (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Squeaker
director: William K. Howard actor: Edmund Lowe / Sebastian Shaw …
other title: Il delatore / El delator anónimo
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
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Royal Flash (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Royal Flash
director: Richard Lester actor: Malcolm McDowell / Alan Bates …
other title: Flashman: Den uovervindelige / Le Froussard héroïque …
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
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The Millionairess (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Millionairess
director: Anthony Asquith actor: Sophia Loren / Peter Sellers …
other title: La miliardaria / Die Millionärin …
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 love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
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The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Happiest Days of Your Life
director: Frank Launder actor: Alastair Sim / Margaret Rutherford …
other title: Das doppelte College / ¡Aquellos días tan felices!
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 that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
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The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Belles of St Trinian's
director: Frank Launder actor: Alastair Sim / Joyce Grenfell …
other title: As Belas de St. Trinian / Die Schönen von St. Trinians …
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind.
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Rogue Male (1976) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Rogue Male
director: Clive Donner actor: Peter O'Toole / John Standing …
other title: Hunter il selvaggio
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
director: Frank Launder actor: Terry-Thomas / George Cole …
other title: Blue Murder at St Trinian's / Blue murder at St. Trinians
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
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The Green Man (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Green Man
director: Robert Day / Basil Dearden actor: Alastair Sim / George Cole …
other title: Assassino di fiducia / Seks bomber …
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
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Scrooge (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Scrooge
director: Brian Desmond Hurst actor: Alastair Sim / Mervyn Johns …
other title: Lo schiavo dell'oro / O Homem e o Espectro …
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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A Christmas Carol (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Christmas Carol
director: Richard Williams actor: Alastair Sim / Michael Redgrave …
other title: Un Cuento De Navidad / A Christmas Carol (film 1971)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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An Inspector Calls (1954) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
An Inspector Calls
director: Guy Hamilton actor: Alastair Sim / Olga Lindo …
other title: En inspektør ringer på / Un inspecteur vous demande
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?