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Who Do You Think You Are?: Series 4 (2007)
8.2/10
Starring: Griff Rhys Jones, John Hurt, Alistair McGowan, Natasha Kaplinsky, Carol Vorderma...
Britain's best-loved celebrities trace their family tree to reveal the surprising, extraordinary and often moving stories of their ancestors. At the s... Read more
Green for Danger (1946)
7.6/10
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Starring: Alastair Sim, Rosamund John, Trevor Howard
Alastair Sim stars as the eccentric and irreverent Inspector Cockrill of the Kent County Police alongside Trevor Howard and Rosamund John in this susp... Read more
The Ruling Class (1972)
7.6/10
Director: Peter Medak
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe
Outrageously funny satire features an Oscar-nominated performance by Peter O'Toole as a British earl who thinks he's Jesus Christ. Wicked barbs are th... Read more
School For Scoundrels (1960)
7.5/10
Director: Robert Hamer
Starring: Alastair Sim, Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Terry-Thomas
Enrol at the wacky college of Lifemanship where a senior host of great British comedians teach a completely uproarious course on how to come out tops... Read more
Stage Fright (1950)
7.1/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim, Sybil...
In Alfred Hitchcock's world, theatres are where danger stalks the wings, characters are not what they seem and that "final curtain" can drop any secon... Read more
Hue and Cry (1947)
6.9/10
Director: Charles Crichton
Starring: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Frederick Piper
This, the first comedy from the Ealing Studios - has a group of rowdy youngsters turning the tables on crooks who've been using their newspaper to pas... Read more
Keep Your Seats, Please (1936)
6.8/10
Director: Monty Banks
Starring: Alastair Sim, Florence Desmond, George Formby, Gus McNaughton
George Withers (George Formby) is flat broke. Dim-witted yet endearing, he holds a special place in the heart of his wealthy aunt. For fear of her oth... Read more
Royal Flash (1975)
6.8/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Joss Ackland, Alan Bates, Britt Ekland, Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Re...
Based on the second novel in George MacDonald Fraser's Harry Flashman series, this spirited, swashbuckling comedy from director Richard Lester feature... Read more
Rogue Male (Blu-ray) (1976)
6.7/10
Director: Clive Donner
Starring: Peter O'Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim
Early in 1939 Sir Robert Hunter (Peter O'Toole) takes aim at Adolf Hitler (Michael Sheard) with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Ca... Read more
Rogue Male (1976)
6.7/10
Director: Clive Donner
Starring: Peter O'Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim
Early in 1939 Sir Robert Hunter (Peter O'Toole) takes aim at Adolf Hitler (Michael Sheard) with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Ca... Read more
The Millionairess (1960)
5.5/10
Director: Anthony Asquith
Starring: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Dennis Price, Vittorio De Sica
George Bernard Shaw's aceribic play served as the basis for this romantic satire starring Sophia Loren as a fabulously wealthy beauty who tires of men... Read more
Luella Miller (2006)
2.8/10
Director: Dane Giraud
Starring: Sara Wiseman, Sia Trokenheim, Philip Brown, Alistair Browning
Lydia (Sara Wiseman of 'Mercy Peak' fame) lives alone in small town New Zealand; more child than woman, she spends her life making costumes for the lo... Read more
St. Trinians: The Belles of St Trinian's / Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1954)
Director: Frank Launder
Starring: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Joyce Grenfell
The Belles of St Trinian's: A wonderful flimization of Ronald Searle's cartoons about a completely crazy school for girls, run by a dotty Headmistress... Read more
The Green Man (1956) / School for Scoundrels (1960)
Director: Robert Day, Robert Hamer
Starring: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott
An Alastair Sim double feature. 'The Green Man' - Alastair Sim is a timid clockmaker with a part-time job - International Assassination Expert. He has... Read more
Classic Thriller: Green For Danger / Venetian Bird / Nothing But the Night (1952)
Director: Peter Sasdy, Ralph Thomas, Sidney Gilliat
Starring: Alastair Sim, Christopher Lee, Eva Bartok, Peter Cushing, Richard Todd, Trevor H...
'Green for Danger' (1946) Mysterious goings on in a war-time emergency hospital. A postman dies on the operating table. A theatre sister is then vicio... Read more
Gold Cinema Collection: Carve Her Name With Pride / Cottage to Let / Sea of Sand (1958)
Director: Anthony Asquith, Guy Green, Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John M...
'Carve Her Name With Pride' (1958) Violette Bushell is a young woman living in London in World War 2. She meets a young French soldier whom she falls... Read more
Alastair Sim Collection: The Green Man / Folly To Be Wise / Geordie / Left, Right and Centre / Laughter in Paradise (1951)
Director: Frank Launder, Mario Zampi, Robert Day, Sidney Gilliat
Starring: George Cole, Alastair Sim, Hugh Burden, Audrey Hepburn, Ian Carmichael, Bill Tra...
'The Green Man' (1956) - Alastair Sim stars in this entertaining black comedy as a timid clockmaker with a part-time job - International Assassination... Read more
The Ealing Comedy Collection: The Lavender Hill Mob / Whisky Galore! / Passport to Pimlico / School for Scoundrels / The Maggie (1951)
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Charles Crichton, Henry Cornelius, Robert Hamer
Starring: Alastair Sim, Alec Guinness, Basil Radford, Ian Carmichael, James Robertson Just...
The legendary Ealing Studios were home to some of Britain's most enduring - and endearing - comedies. It is the oldest continuously-working studio fac... Read more