Alastair Sim — Actor (11)
The Terror (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Terror
director: Richard Bird actor: Wilfrid Lawson / Bernard Lee
other title: 恐惧 / Terreur des morts vivants
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.
Captain Boycott (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Captain Boycott
other title: El rebelde / Capitán Boycott
In 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Captain Charles Boycott band together to assert their rights, patriotic farmer Hugh Davin leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracise their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
director: Walter Forde actor: Gordon Harker / Alastair Sim
other title: Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It
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.
Geordie (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Geordie
director: Frank Launder actor: Alastair Sim / Bill Travers
other title: 若い河
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.
Folly to Be Wise (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Folly to Be Wise
director: Frank Launder actor: Alastair Sim / Elizabeth Allan
other title: 愚蠢明智 / 畫裡真真
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.
London Belongs to Me (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
London Belongs to Me
other title: Londres appartient à moi / Londres me pertenece
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.
Rogue Male (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Rogue Male
other title: 로그 메일 / 行刺希特勒
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.
Hue and Cry (1947) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hue and Cry
director: Charles Crichton actor: Alastair Sim / Jack Warner
other title: 呼声 / Die kleinen Detektive
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.