Joan Sims — Actor (10)
The Big Job (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Big Job
director: Gerald Thomas actor: Sidney James / Sylvia Syms
other title: Assalto Imperfeito / Atraco imperfecto
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.
Please Turn Over (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Please Turn Over
director: Gerald Thomas actor: Ted Ray / Jean Kent
other title: La verità in reggicalze / Die liebestolle Familie
The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population.
Watch Your Stern (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Watch Your Stern
director: Gerald Thomas actor: Kenneth Connor / Eric Barker
other title: Ist ja irre - Unser Torpedo kommt zurück / Ist ja irre – unser Torpedo kommt zurück
When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.
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.
Carry On Screaming! (1966) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb Skybridge
Carry On Screaming!
other title: Chiamami domani... che oggi devo morire / Ist ja irre - Alarm im Gruselschloß
The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for him, Detective Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue!
Love Among the Ruins (1976) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Love Among the Ruins
other title: Amore tra le rovine / Liebe in der Dämmerung
An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.
Carry On Cleo (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Carry On Cleo
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.
A Christmas Carol (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Christmas Carol
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.
Mr. Topaze (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mr. Topaze
director: Peter Sellers actor: Peter Sellers / Nadia Gray
other title: A Solidão da Riqueza / Todos somos sinvergüenzas
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac, a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy, a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.