Sidney James — Actor (37)
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Venetian Bird (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Venetian Bird
director: Ralph Thomas actor: Richard Todd / Eva Bartok …
other title: Intriga en Venecia / Enquête à Venise
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
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The Iron Petticoat (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Iron Petticoat
director: Ralph Thomas actor: Bob Hope / Katharine Hepburn …
other title: La sottana di ferro / Um Americano em Moscovo …
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.
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I Was Monty's Double (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
I Was Monty's Double
director: John Guillermin actor: John Mills / Cecil Parker …
other title: La battaglia segreta di Montgomery / Montgomerys dobbeltgænger …
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
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Carry On Cleo (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Carry On Cleo
director: Gerald Thomas actor: Sidney James / Kenneth Williams …
other title: Ehi Cesare vai da Cleopatra? Hai chiuso... / Så, så, Cleopatra! …
Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Julius Caesar.
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Last Holiday (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Last Holiday
director: Henry Cass actor: Alec Guinness / Beatrice Campbell …
other title: Ferien wie noch nie / Vacances sur ordonnance …
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
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The Glass Cage (1955) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Glass Cage
director: Montgomery Tully actor: John Ireland / Honor Blackman …
other title: Ayuno fatal
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
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Give Us This Day (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Give Us This Day
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Sam Wanamaker / Lea Padovani …
other title: Cristo tra i muratori / Haus der Sehnsucht …
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
director: Frank Launder actor: Cecil Parker / George Cole …
other title: The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.
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Carry On Up the Jungle (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Carry On Up the Jungle
director: Gerald Thomas actor: Frankie Howerd / Sidney James …
other title: Die total verrückte Königin der Amazonen / Continuez jusqu'à la Jungle …
The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the fearless hunter and guide. Prof. Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum bird. Everything is going swimmingly until a gorilla enters the camp, and then the party is captured by an all female tribe from Aphrodisia...
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
director: St. John Legh Clowes actor: Jack La Rue / Hugh McDermott …
other title: Pas d'orchidées pour Miss Blandish / No orchids for Miss Blandish
A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.
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The Small Back Room (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Small Back Room
director: Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger actor: David Farrar / Kathleen Byron …
other title: La stanzetta sul retro / Experten aus dem Hinterzimmer …
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.
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The Yellow Balloon (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Yellow Balloon
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Andrew Ray / Kathleen Ryan …
other title: Il tunnel del terrore / Amenaza siniestra …
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
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Cosh Boy (1953) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Cosh Boy
director: Lewis Gilbert actor: James Kenney / Joan Collins …
other title: Cosh boy / The Slasher …
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.
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Trapeze (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Trapeze
director: Carol Reed actor: Burt Lancaster / Tony Curtis …
other title: Trapezio / Trapez …
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
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Quatermass 2 (1957) [Movie] Skybridge TMDB WikiData IMDb
Quatermass 2
director: Val Guest actor: Brian Donlevy / John Longden …
other title: I vampiri dello spazio / Usina de Monstros …
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.