Alastair Sim

술집 여종업원인 아멘다 훤세커(Amanda Hunsaker: 잭키 스완슨 분)가 약을 복용하고 호텔 아래로 뛰어내려 죽는다. 사건을 맡게 된 로저 머터프(Roger Murtaugh: 대니 글로버 분) 형사는 50대에 들어서 은퇴도 멀지 않은 노형사인데, 아멘다가 자기의 옛 월남전 전우인 마이크 훤세커(Michael Hunsaker: 톰 엣킨스 분)의 딸이라는 것을 알고는 더욱 애석해 한다. 게다가 조수로 배정된 사람이 경찰서 내에서 말썽많기로 소문나 있고 아내를 잃은 뒤 더욱 거칠어져 물불을 안가리는 마틴 릭스(Martin Riggs: 멜 깁슨 분) 형사라는 걸 알고 심란해 한다. 로저는 아멘다의 아버지 훤세커를 만나 추궁한 끝에 훤세커가 월남전에 특수부대 요원들과 함께 마약 밀수를 했다는 사실을 알게 된다. 훤세커가 발을 빼려하자 딸을 죽인 것이다. 그러나 훤세커마저 조직에 의해 살해된다. 로저의 딸이 납치한 이들 조직은 군 출신의 장군(The General: 밋첼 라이언 분)이라는 자가 지휘하는 범죄 조직으로, 두 형사도 이들과 협상 장소로 갔다가 잡히고 만다. 하지만 불같은 릭스가 탈출하여 조직을 일망타진하고, 조직의 하수인인 죠슈아(Mr. Joshua: 게리 부시 분)와 일대일 결투를 벌여 그를 눕힌다

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.

1909년 영국 요크셔(Yorkshire, England). 데이브와 토미는 엠스데일이라는 작은 탄광촌에서 탄광 사고로 아빠를 잃고 루크라는 새 아빠와 살고 있다. 엠스데일에서는 석탄을 나르는 말들을 쓰고 있는데, 데이브와 토미는 그 중에서도 일 잘하는 플래쉬를 제일 좋아한다. 그러던 중 새로운 광산 감독이 오고 그는 광산의 적자를 해소하기 위해 말들을 없애고 석탄을 운반하는 기계를 들여놓기로 한다. 그에게는 알리스라는 데이브 또래의 딸이 하나 있다. 말들이 도살장으로 보내질 거라는 이야기를 들은 셋은 말들을 구해내기로 하고 폐쇄된 갱도를 통해 말을 꺼내온다. 한편 광부들은 말들을 없앤다는 소리에 자신들의 생계를 걱정하게 되고 급기야는 파업을 하게 된다. 하지만 파업이 계속되면 광산이 문을 닫을 거라는 말에 작업에 복귀한 날 폭발사고가 생기고 갱도에 갇힌 사람들은 영리한 플래쉬의 도움으로 무사히 구출된다. 플래쉬는 빠져나오지 못한 채 탄광에서 숨을 거둔다. 이에 광산 주인은 자신의 땅을 말들을 위한 목장으로 내놓고 모든 마을 사람들이 모여 파티를 하는데...

Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.

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

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

Ebenezer Scrooge, a skinflint visited by the spirits of Christmas past, present and future one fateful Christmas Eve. It's up to them to help the old crab see the error of his ways. And they do, to the delight of Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim.

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.

Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.

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.

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.

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.

Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?

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.

자린고비 구두쇠인 주인공 스크루지(에베니저 스크루지 Ebenezer Scrooge)는 자린고비로 인정이라곤 손톱 끝만치도 없는 수전노이다. 그런 그가 크리스마스 전날 밤에 본래 공동으로 사업을 하던 동업자의 유령을 만나 자기의 과거·현재·미래의 모습을 보게 되자 자신의 죄를 뉘우치고 사람다운 마음을 찾게 된다는 이야기이다.

Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.

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.

여배우 샬롯(마들렌 디트리히)은 남편이 살해되었다며 피에 물든 드레스를 입고 조나단(리처드 토드)의 집에 들어선다. 그녀의 열렬한 추종자이자 애인인 배우 조나단은 저녁에 있을 연극공연에 의심을 피하려면 참석하는 편이 낫다고 충고한다. 샬롯은 갈아입고 극장에 갈 옷을 가져다 달라는 샬롯의 부탁을 들어주기 위해 집에 아무도 없다는 그녀의 말을 믿고서 몰래 저택안으로 들어간다. 집안으로 들어간 조나단은 서재에서 샬롯의 알리바이를 조작하기 위해서 일부러 도둑이 집안을 뒤진 것처럼 꾸민다. 그 때 집안일 하는 여자가 들어오고 조나단은 드레스를 가지고 급히 계단을 내려간다. 조나단이 샬롯의 계략에 의해 살인누명을 쓰고 쫓기게 되자 조나단의 친구이자 배우 지망생인 이브(제인 와이먼)는 이 일을 무대관리인인 아버지에게 말하고 조나단의 결백을 밝히고자 한다. 조나단은 그들 앞에서 중요한 증거가 될 샬롯의 피묻은 드레스를 불태워버리는데 이브는샬롯의 무대 의상 스텝을 가장해 샬롯의 주위를 맴돌며 증거를 확보하려 한다. 이브와 아버지는 조나단을 쫓는 경찰들이 분장실에서 샬롯이 이브에게 진실을 말하는 것을 들을 수 있도록 마이크를 연결해둔다. 두 여자들이 대화하는 내용을 엿듣던 경찰은 샬롯이 조나단과 자신의 일에 대해 입을 다물어주는 대가로 돈을 지불하겠다고 말하는 내용을 듣는다. 조나단은 경찰을 피해 이브와 차안으로 몰래 숨어들어가고 밀폐된 차안에서 조나단은 뜻밖의 사실을 말한다. 자신이 잠재되어 있는 악마적인 충동에 이끌려 살인을 저질렀다는 것이다. 그가 샬롯의 남편을 살해한 사실을 자백하지만 이 비밀은 오직 이브와 샬롯만 알고 있는 셈이다. 그는 경찰을 피해 극장 안으로 들어가 무대위로 도망치려다가 넘어져 버린 조나단은 연극의 막을 알리는 커튼이 내려와 목 위에 떨어지면서 숨지게된다.

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.

A 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.

2차 세계 대전 중인 영국의 한 시골 병원. 나찌의 폭격이 있긴 했지만 평화로운 곳이었다. 그러던 어느 날, 폭격에 부상을 입은 그 지역의 우편 배달부가 간단한 수술을 앞두고 마취를 받던 도중 사망한다. 수술에 참가한 의사와 간호사 6명 중 하나가 살인자가 될 수 있는 이 상황에서 우체부의 죽음이 계획적이었다고 주장하던 베이츠 간호사 역시 죽음을 맞는다. 한편 런던 경찰청은 사건 조사를 위해 이 곳으로 카크릴 경위(Inspector Cockrill: 알라스테어 심 분)를 보낸다. 카크릴은 조사 끝에 수술에 참가했던 사람들 중 살아남은 5명 모두가 살인 동기를 가지고 있음이 밝혀낸다. 결국 카크릴은 범인을 잡기 위해 가짜 수술을 준비하기로 하는데...

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

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 discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.

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.