Movies by Actor - Alastair Sim (60 [Missing: 15]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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Fire Has Been Arranged, AA pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that | 1935 | Leslie S. Hiscott | Comedy,Crime,Musical | 5.8 (127 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Late ExtraA newspaper reporter sets out to track down a cop killer. | 1935 | Albert Parker | Crime,Drama | 6.0 (92 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Private Secretary, TheA timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl. | 1935 | Henry Edwards | Comedy | 7.1 (33 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Riverside Murder, TheShortly before an important meeting of five investors, one of them, Robert Norman, is shot dead in his study. The police come in to solve the crime, while headstrong journalist Claire Haines attempts to get the scoop on the story ... | 1935 | Albert Parker | Crime,Mystery | 5.8 (369 votes) | 64 | 20240530 |
The Big NoiseNA | 1936 | | \N | | | Not Available |
Keep Your Seats, Please!A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it. | 1936 | Monty Banks | Comedy,Musical | 6.2 (216 votes) | 82 | 20231101 |
Man in the Mirror, TheA mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could. | 1936 | Maurice Elvey | Comedy,Fantasy | 6.2 (138 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Troubled WatersNA | 1936 | | Crime,Mystery | | | Not Available |
Wrath of JealousyNA | 1936 | | Drama,Romance | | | Not Available |
Clothes and the WomanNA | 1937 | | Comedy,Romance | | | Not Available |
GangwayNewspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster. | 1937 | Sonnie Hale | Comedy,Crime,Musical | 6.8 (125 votes) | 90 | 20231101 |
Melody and RomanceNA | 1937 | | Comedy,Musical | | | Not Available |
Lost on the Western FrontNA | 1937 | | Drama,War | | | Not Available |
Squeaker, TheLondon'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 | 1937 | William K. Howard | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.2 (181 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Strange ExperimentNA | 1937 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Alfs Button AfloatAlf discovers that one of the buttons on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp. When he cleans it a genie appears. | 1938 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy | 5.8 (115 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Sailing AlongA young orphan woman and a young man were brought up together. She is a 'genius' dancer and he is a 'genius' stockbroker. They both realise their potential. After, they realise they are in love and decide to return to the sailing ... | 1938 | Sonnie Hale | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.6 (213 votes) | 80 | 20231101 |
Terror, TheA mysterious criminal mastermind plots a spectacular gold robbery, then after the robbery is completed he makes sure his gang is caught by the police, keeps the gold and disappears. After his former accomplices are released from pris | 1938 | Richard Bird | Crime,Horror,Mystery | 5.7 (244 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
Climbing HighWealthy young man Nicky (Sir Michael Redgrave) pretends to be poor to be close to model Diana (Jesse Matthews) though he's nearly engaged to aristocrat Lady Constance (Margaret Vyner). | 1938 | Carol Reed | Comedy | 6.0 (216 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Inspector HornleighInspector Hornleigh and his assistant Sergeant Bingham are called in to investigate a murder that involves the theft of government secrets. | 1939 | Eugene Forde | Comedy,Mystery | 6.7 (252 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Inspector Hornleigh on HolidayIt comes as no surprise when Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant, Sergeant Bingham, go to enjoy the winds and rains on their annual seaside vacation, when they run into a "busman's holiday." One of their fellow boarders at Balmoral | 1939 | Walter Forde | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 6.9 (210 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
The Mysterious Mr. DavisNA | 1940 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
This Man is NewsDavid Kier, one of the thieves in a sensational jewel robbery and subsequent trial, is set free when he turns King's Evidence on the other members. Kier refuses to give reporter Simon Drake an interview, as Simon thinks he will proba | 1938 | David MacDonald | Comedy,Crime,Mystery | 6.8 (103 votes) | 63 | 20220414 |
Shadows of the UnderworldNA | 1939 | | Comedy,Mystery | | | Not Available |
Law and DisorderOn the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast. | 1940 | David MacDonald | Comedy,Crime,Thriller | 6.1 (43 votes) | 74 | 20231101 |
Bombsight Stolen [Cottage to Let]Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight. | 1941 | Anthony Asquith | Comedy,Mystery,Thriller | 6.8 (1.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It [Mail Train]The plot pits Hornleigh and Bingham against a clever gang of Nazi espionage agents. Most of the action takes place aboard a speeding train, with our heroes never quite certain who can be trusted and who can't. Phyllis Calvert contrib | 1941 | Walter Forde | Crime,Drama | 6.8 (248 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Let the People SingA Czech political exile and a washed-up music hall comedian form an unlikely partnership to try and save a town's concert hall from the planners, businessmen, and bureaucrats. | 1942 | John Baxter | Comedy | 6.8 (60 votes) | 105 | 20220414 |
Waterloo RoadA drama set during World War II. A tale of adultery and desertion. | 1945 | Sidney Gilliat | Drama,Romance,War | 6.4 (664 votes) | 76 | 20231101 |
Green For DangerAfter the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder dies also, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate. | 1946 | Sidney Gilliat | Comedy,Crime,Mystery | 7.5 (4.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Captain BoycottIn 1880 Ireland, poor farmers rebel against the abuses of their British landlords. | 1947 | Frank Launder | Drama,History | 6.5 (378 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Hue And CryA 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. | 1947 | Charles Crichton | Adventure,Comedy,Crime | 6.8 (1.5K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Dulcimer Street [London Belongs To Me]Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, Percy becomes mixed up with gangsters and a murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on | 1948 | Sidney Gilliat | Drama | 7.0 (396 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Happiest Days of Your Life, TheChaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one. | 1950 | Frank Launder | Comedy | 7.3 (1.7K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Stage FrightA struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer. | 1950 | Alfred Hitchcock | Film-Noir,Mystery,Thriller | 7.1 (13.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Laughter in ParadiseAfter a millionaire practical joker dies, his fortune is divided among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in. | 1951 | Mario Zampi | Comedy | 7.1 (1.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Christmas Carol, AEbenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the errors of his | 1951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | Drama,Family,Fantasy | 8.1 (22.6K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Folly to be WiseNewly arrived Army chaplin Captain Paris (Alastair Sim) attempts to book various acts for the entertainment of a troop of soldiers. | 1952 | Frank Launder | Comedy,Drama | 6.2 (311 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Belles of St. Trinians, TheThe schoolgirls of St. Trinian's are more interested in racing forms than books as they try to get-rich-quick. They are abetted by the headmistress' brother. | 1954 | Frank Launder | Comedy,Family,Romance | 6.8 (2.6K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Belles of St. Trinians, TheThe schoolgirls of St. Trinian's are more interested in racing forms than books as they try to get-rich-quick. They are abetted by the headmistress' brother. | 1954 | Frank Launder | Comedy,Family,Romance | 6.8 (2.6K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
An Inspector CallsWhen a young girl is found dead an inspector is sent to investigate a prosperous Yorkshire household. It emerges that each member of the family has a guilty secret - each one is partly responsible for her death. | 1954 | Guy Hamilton | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 7.5 (4.1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
EscapadeThis movie concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his "causes" he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on their door informing them their boys are go | 1955 | Philip Leacock | Comedy,Drama | 6.4 (162 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Wee Geordie [Geordie]Geordie is a very small boy who feels that the girl he loves is ignoring him because of his size. He decides to take a correspondence course in body-building. At 21, Geordie becomes one of the tallest and strongest men in Scotland. | 1955 | Frank Launder | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.9 (817 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Green Man, TheAn assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him. | 1956 | Robert Day, Basil Dearden | Comedy,Crime | 7.2 (1.8K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Blue Murder At St TriniansThe girls of St. Trinian's School go on a bus tour of Italy chaperoned by a diamond-thief disguised as a woman to elude the police. | 1957 | Frank Launder | Comedy | 6.5 (1.2K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Doctor's Dilemma, TheA single doctor about to be awarded a knighthood for his claim of curing tuberculosis is infatuated by a woman's beauty and charm, promising to save her husband's life, only to change his mind after discovering the man's immoral char | 1958 | Anthony Asquith | Comedy,Drama | 6.0 (452 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Millionairess, TheA millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set up by their respective parents. | 1960 | Anthony Asquith | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 5.5 (1.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
School For ScoundrelsA young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation. | 1960 | Robert Hamer, Hal E. Chester, Cyril Frankel | Comedy | 7.4 (3.4K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Anatomist, TheA doctor employs two men to dig up graves in order for him to have bodies on which to perform experiments, but the men begin to get their own ideas of where to get bodies. | 1956 | Dennis Vance | Drama,Horror | 5.8 (101 votes) | 73 | 20231101 |
Cold Comfort FarmYoung Flora Poste leaves the funeral of her parents and finds herself alone with insubstantial means (""barely enough to keep her in stockings and furs"") in mid-1930's London. The young 20-something has no means (nor intentions) of... | 1968 | Peter Hammond | Comedy | 7.1 (153 votes) | 0 | 20231101 |
Ruling Class, TheA member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable, family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue. | 1972 | Peter Medak | Comedy,Drama,Musical | 7.4 (6.2K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
The Prodigal DaughterNA | 1975 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Royal FlashNe'er-do-well Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) is coerced by Otto Von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) into impersonating a Prince. | 1975 | Richard Lester | Adventure,Comedy,History | 6.4 (2.1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Rogue MaleIn 1939 when an English hunter takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a rifle, he is captured, tortured and left for dead. He escapes but his captors pursue him to England. | 1976 | Clive Donner | Drama,Thriller | 6.7 (876 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Littlest Horse Thieves, The [Escape from the Dark]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. But when they're caught, it's up to th... | 1976 | Charles Jarrott | Drama,Family | 6.9 (439 votes) | 104 | 20231101 |
Fiddling FuelNA | 1943 | | Short | | | Not Available |
Mr. GillieNA | 1950 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Her Father's DaughterNA | 1941 | | Short,War | | | Not Available |
Dr. AngelusNA | 1948 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
The AnatomistNA | 1949 | | Comedy,Crime,Drama | | | Not Available |