Arthur Mullard
Nacimiento : 1910-09-19, Islington, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1995-12-11
Blackie
Randy plumber Sid South enjoys a profession which offers him ample opportunity to bed sexy housewives.
Ben
A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain
Wally Briggs
Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers car being written off. As a result Stan, Jack and Blakey are fired. Stan and Jack soon get new jobs as a bus crew at a Pontins holiday resort but discover that Blakey has also gotten a job there as the chief security guard.
Gravedigger (segment 4 "Bargain in Death")
Cinco historias terroríficas: 1) Un hombre busca a su hermana para asesinarla, pues ella es la beneficiaria de la herencia de su padre. Despues del crimen, el asesino entra en un macabro restaurante para celebrarlo. 2) Unos recién casados se instalan en una nueva casa, pero, muy pronto, el marido empieza a enfadarse porque su esposa Cambia todas las cosas de lugar. 3) Un mago está interesado en comprar una soga encantada de la India, pero la dueña, se niega a venderla. El mago asesina a la mujer y consigue la soga, pero este será el principio de una amarga venganza. 4) Un hombre simula su propia muerte con el objeto de estafar a una compañía de seguros, pero dos estudiantes, que buscan cuerpos para aprobar Anatomía, se encuentran con ese 'cadáver' que no huele a muerto. 5) Un artista trata de vengarse de sus representantes. Para ello se sirve de magia negra y vudú, de manera que pinta cuadros de personas que, al destruírlos, matan también a las personas.
Perce
Cinco años en la cárcel han dado a Herbie Hassler justo lo que necesita: tiempo suficiente para idear el golpe perfecto, robar 5 millones de dólares en una espléndida mansión inglesa. Para ello logra entrar a trabajar en la casa como experto en seguridad.
La dueña de la casa, una excéntrica sin sentido común, y los sirvientes, un grupo de torpes chiflados, hacen que la situación para Herbie sea perfecta.
La espléndida casa, y sus simpatiquísimos habitantes, consiguen que Herbie se olvide de su plan… hasta que los matones que financiaron el robo se presentan reclamando su dinero.
Cyril, Big Man
Dick Van Dyke interpreta a un excéntrico inventor de nombre Caractacus Potts, que consigue convertir un viejo coche de carreras (llamado originalmente "Paragon Panther") en un vehículo que podía volar y flotar sobre el agua al que denominó Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Con este coche viaja junto a su padre (Lionel Jeffries), sus hijos (Heather Ripley y Adrian Hall) y a su bella enamorada (Sally Ann Howes) al mundo mágico de los piratas, castillos y viven aventuras sin fin. Juntos se enfrentan al Barón Bomburst (Gert Fröbe) y a otros villanos. Destaca también en el reparto James Robertson Justice en el papel de Lorde Scrumptious.
Cafe Boss
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
Yossie
Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.
Wally
Morgan es un artista que, influido por las ideas marxistas de su madre, siente la necesidad de rebelarse contra el orden social establecido y contra toda clase de convencionalismos. Pero esta actitud lo alejará cada vez más de la realidad y, poco a poco, contraerá una grave patología psicológica que lo lleva a identificarse con un gorila, animal al que se siente muy unido. Llegado a este punto, su mujer Leonie le pide el divorcio y, aunque Morgan intenta recuperarla, ella ha empezado a sentirse atraída por otro hombre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Big Jim
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
Traffic Warden
When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.
Mr. Merryweather
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
Ted
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.
Brassknuckles
Pearly Gates (Peter Sellers), jefe de una banda de ladrones de guante blanco de Londres, decide organizar un espectacular robo usando como tapadera una tienda de alta costura, pero un trío de inoportunos policías les arrebatan el botín. Lo mismo le ocurre a la banda del Nervios. Lo que las dos bandas ignoran es que el trío en cuestión lo forman unos gángsters australianos que se disfrazan de policías para robar a los ladrones.
Chief Borstal Officer
Colin Smith es un joven de clase obrera que vive en los alrededores de Nottingham. Un día comete un robo en una panadería y es enviado a un reformatorio. Una vez allí, empieza a correr y, gracias a sus cualidades como corredor de fondo, va ganando puestos en la institución penitenciaria. Durante sus entrenamientos reflexiona sobre su vida anterior y empieza a comprender que se encuentra en una situación privilegiada.
Getaway
A group of prisoners are encouraged to form a jazz band and vow to go straight when they are released to tour the country. However, the trumpets and clarinets are just a cover for a series of robberies. Musical comedy, starring British jazz star Acker Bilk as himself, alongside Jimmy Thompson and Jennifer Jayne.
Grogan
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Police Chief
The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to London television studio to ask trad jazz musician to support their trial.
Sam
Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery. Innocent in the ways of the big city, he is thought to be a member of another gang by both the train robbers and the police, who all suspect him of trying to rob the post office where he works.
Colonel Proudfoot of Proudfoot Industries tries to entice a couple of newly qualified dentists to advertise "Dreem", a revolutionary type of toothpaste, but he knows that if the dentists learn that they are part of an advertising campaign, they will be struck off, and the campaign will be a disaster.
Fred
La prisión de Huntleigh es un auténtico paraíso para los reclusos, sobre todo para tres de ellos que incluso planean cometer un valioso robo de diamantes, sin que nadie llegue a sospechar de ellos.
Tubby
Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his budding boxing career a secret, with he and his tough-talking promoter Wally Burton both pretending to be devout 'men of the cloth'.
Renny Fiasco
A man wants to help a youth club that is in danger of closure. He decides to resort to blackmailing the relatives of the recently deceased, threatening to publish incriminating stories about them. Then he tries to blackmail the family of a prominent villain.
Joe Linders
A third rate con man lands himself the job of a get-away driver for a bank heist that has complications.
Joe's Heavy
Tras obtener el permiso para marcharse del Ejército en Alemania, Harry va en busca de su mujer a Inglaterra, donde tiene un trabajo como conductor de camiones. Pronto su jefe intentará involucrarlo en una operación de contrabando. Al principio se resiste, pero Harry le ofrece a la bellísima Lynn a cambio.
Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)
Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.
Workman
Story of a group of children's successful efforts to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on stealing valuable invention.
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En una casa aislada y próxima a las vías del tren vive la señora Wilberforce, una venerable anciana que alquila dos habitaciones al misterioso profesor Marcus y a los cuatro miembros de su siniestra banda de música.
Russian guard
In post-war Vienna, Rosalinda and her husband become embroiled in a series of complicated escapades that puts their marital bliss at risk.
Henchman (uncredited)
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. The first film in the classic comedy series.
Russian Policeman (uncredited)
Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un corresponsal americano en Moscú se casa con una bailarina de ballet. Posteriormente es expulsado del país y no tiene más remedio que abandonarla. Hará todo lo que esté en su mano para recuperarla.
La trama cuenta cómo un ex militar experto en explosivos es solicitado por la policía para desactivar una bomba colocada por un terrorista en un tren de municiones.
Minor Role (uncredited)
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
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Sydney Stratton (Alec Guinness) es un joven investigador que, tras arduos esfuerzos, consigue inventar un tejido tan revolucionario que no se puede romper ni manchar. Sin embargo, a la alegría inicial pronto le sigue la decepción, pues tanto los empresarios como los trabajadores de la industria textil llegan a un acuerdo para impedir la fabricación y difusión del nuevo tejido. La razón es obvia: los primeros temen la ruina de sus empresas y los segundos la pérdida de sus puestos de trabajo.
Harry, Boxing Booth Contestant
La historia de un boxeador y motorista que intenta seducir a una hermosa muchacha durante el carnaval.
Stretcher-bearer (uncredited)
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsuccessful attempts on his life while the police clear up the mystery.
Prison Officer (uncredited)
Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."
Man Standing Near Bar (uncredited)
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.
Policeman in Manhunt
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
Undetermined Minor Role (Uncredited)
Inglaterra, siglo XIX. Famosa adaptación de la novela homónima de Charles Dickens. Oliver es un niño huérfano al que su madre, una joven soltera, abandonó a las puertas de un orfanato. Para librarse de él, el malvado director de la institución, decide venderlo a un empresario como aprendiz de su taller. Cansado de los malos tratos que recibe, huye y acaba uniéndose a un grupo de pequeños rateros que viven bajo la férula de un viejo tiránico.
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Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
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.