Alastair Sim

Antiguos soldados de la guerra del Vietnam han creado una poderosa red de tráfico de droga. Dos policias reciben el encargo de esclarecer un asesinato en el que esa peligrosa organización se halla implicada.

Compilation of classic British comedy moments

Early 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.

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 the mine owners and the miners themselves to decide what's right

Otto von Bismarck contrata los servicios de Flashman para que realice una peligrosa misión: se trata de suplantar a un príncipe germano con el que Flashman tiene un extraordinario parecido. Una vez conseguido su objetivo, Bismarck intentará asesinar a Flashman y al príncipe para conseguir la unificación de los estados alemanes.

When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.

Cuando un miembro de la Cámara de los Lores deja su patrimonio a su hijo Jack, un joven desequilibrado que se cree Jesucristo, los otros miembros de la familia intentarán arrebatarle la herencia. (FILMAFFINITY)

Versión animada del clásico cuento de Charles Dickens “Canción de Navidad” (1843), inspirada en las ilustraciones del primer libro original realizadas por caricaturista y ilustrador John Leech; y en las ilustraciones de Milo Winter. Narra la historia de Ebenezer Scrooge, un viejo avaro, tacaño, egoísta y despiadado: que es visitado en la víspera de Navidad por tres espíritus: El Espíritu de la Navidad Pasada, El Espíritu de la Navidad Presente y el Espíritu de la Navidad Futura; para hacerle recapacitar de su cruel y egoísta manera de ser. Esta versión fue realizada como un especial para la cadena de televisión ABC, la cual fue galardonada com el Óscar a mejor Cortometraje de Animación en 1972.

Epifanía Parerga es una joven italiana rica y de buena posición que no deja de gastar sus riquezas en lujos y artículos caros, dando al dinero una preferencia excesiva. Sus máximas en la vida cambian cuando conoce al doctor hindú Ahmed el Kabir, que atiende a las clases desfavorecidas de Londres.

Henry Palfrey se esfuerza mucho para impresionar a las chicas, pero siempre sale perdiendo. Entonces descubre un colegio especial dirigido por el profesor Potter que imparte cursos sobre los secretos del éxito.

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.

Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.

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.

A las órdenes de sus misteriosos jefes de Oriente Medio, el relojero Hawkins es en realidad un asesino a sueldo que siente predilección por matar a sus objetivos con bombas. Tras liquidar a un dictador y a un millonario, recibe el encargo de asesinar a un político que se alojará en el remoto hotel The Green Man con su secretaria, con quien mantiene una relación secreta. Una vez allí el plan de Hawkins será descubierto por el vendedor de aspiradoras William Blake, quien intentará detenerlo.

A horror drama directed by Dennis Vance.

Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as "Wee Geordie" in the USA.

An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.

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.

1912. La cena de una acaudalada familia inglesa se ve interrumpida por un inspector de policía, que les comunica que una muchacha conocida por todos los presentes ha muerto en misteriosas circunstancias. Parece que cualquiera de ellos podría haber sido el responsable. ¿Pero quién es este inspector y que quiere de ellos? (FILMAFFINITY)

Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.

A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.

Ebeneezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) es un cruel avaro hasta una Nochebuena fatídica cuando es visitado por tres fantasmas. Los espíritus le muestran cómo su comportamiento durante los años le ha hecho un hombre solitario, amargo. Utilizan eventos del pasado idealista de Scrooge, su tristre presente y su lúgubre futuro, las apariciones harán todo lo posible para derretir su alma steely. Cicatero Ebeneezer Scrooge aprende de sus errores justo a tiempo para las vacaciones de Navidad y consigue que la vida de todos sea un poco mejor.

Marjory gana un premio de belleza en su ciudad y se encuentra desfilando como lady Godiva, aunque no del todo. Acaba compitiendo para el título mundial en Londres.

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.

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.

Un hombre que es buscado por la policía, acusado de haber matado al marido de su amante, se refugia en casa de su amiga Eve, a la que confiesa que la verdadera asesina es su amante, la actriz Charlotte Inwood. Eve decide investigar por su cuenta, pero cuando conoce al detective encargado del caso comienza a enamorarse...

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.

El adolescente Joe Kirby, fantaseando estar tras la pista de unos criminales, descubre para su gran asombro que todo se ha hecho realidad. Hace un recorrido por las historias de su propio cómic. Muy pronto se da cuenta de que las crónicas aventureras del cómic son usadas como una forma de comunicación entre un maestro criminal y su pandilla de ladrones.

El inspector Cockrill nos cuenta esta historia: mientras Londres está en alerta máxima por la caída de las bombas volantes alemanas, debe resolver el caso de las muertes acaecidas en un hospital de emergencia rural. Basado en "Green for Danger" de Christianna Brand.

Londres (1940). Tillie Colter se encuentra sola en la ciudad. Mientras su marido está en el frente luchando, la joven se acabará enamorando de Ted Purvis, quien ha podido evitar alistarse en el ejército. Cuando el marido de Tillie, Jim, se entera de la relación, abandona el ejército para regresar a casa.

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

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.

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.

On 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.

A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner

During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.

A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.

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.

Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result.

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.

Alf descubre que uno de los botones de su uniforme está hecho del metal de la lámpara de Aladdin. Cuando lo limpia, aparece un genio.

For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.

Sailing Along is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Sonnie Hale and starring Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Jack Whiting, Frank Pettingell, Noel Madison and Alastair Sim. A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him

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).

Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.

Doctors perform brain surgery to reform a hardened criminal

During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Morley. —Guy Bellinger

A 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.

Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at hand when George is left a fortune by his old auntie, but unfortunately his inheritance is hidden inside a chair which has already been auctioned off! Can George and his chums track down his rightful due before his grasping solicitor (Alastair Sim, in an early film appearance) snatches the lot? It's hard to say, but he still finds time to perform both the title song and the classic 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.

James Mason is teamed up once again with Virginia Cherill whom he appeared with in his debut film, 'Late Extra'. He plays a government agent (John Merriman) who makes a few enquiries and follows leads. Cherill plays June Elkhardt.

A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities.

A newspaper reporter sets out to track down the murderer of a policeman.

A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.

A 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 it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.

This is a great rainy day/night murder mystery in a mansion that all whodunit lovers will appreciate. A woman reporter helps an inspector solve the deaths of four financiers on the eve of a group shareout. Based on "Les Six Hommes Morts" (Editions du Masque) by Stanislas-André Steeman.