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Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films. He is best remembered in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge, and for his portrayal of Miss Fritton, the headmistress in two St. Trinian's films. He was famously described by comedian Ronnie Corbett as a "sad-faced actor, with the voice of a fastidious ghoul", in Corbett's autobiography High Hopes.
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17 May 1941
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.
01 June 1935
A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught.
19 August 1937
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
26 April 1937
Doctors perform brain surgery to reform a hardened criminal
06 February 1956
To acquire a fresh supply of cadavers for use in his medical school experiments, Dr. Knox turns two of his inept students into graverobbers.
30 June 1938
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.
07 March 1939
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.
24 March 1960
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.
05 February 1945
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.
15 April 1938
A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.
01 February 1936
James Mason is teamed up once again with Virginia Cherill whom he appeared with in his debut film, 'Late Extra'.
06 September 1941
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.
06 July 1940
On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs.
11 November 1937
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him.
04 December 1952
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.
10 October 1975
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.
25 October 1951
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.
22 July 1953
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
01 November 1977
Compilation of classic British comedy moments
02 September 1955
Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength.
01 August 1936
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.
01 July 1939
A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
30 November 1951
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
01 January 1937
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.
24 May 1972
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate.
23 February 1950
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
05 August 1955
An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.
26 August 1935
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
16 September 1938
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.
01 December 1939
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
05 November 1948
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939.
22 September 1976
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark.
16 March 1954
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.
01 June 1951
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.
20 November 1972
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.
21 December 1956
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.
28 September 1954
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey.
18 October 1960
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.
19 November 1935
A newspaper reporter sets out to track down the murderer of a policeman.
26 May 1976
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed.
21 December 1971
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways.
10 December 1957
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.
07 December 1946
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
31 October 1938
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana.
01 February 1947
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.
02 March 1935
Investor Robert Norman murdered before meeting. Police investigate. Journalist Claire Haines pursues story to impress editor.
15 October 1936
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.
26 August 1947
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.
08 March 1950
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions.
01 January 1936
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.
02 May 1938
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.
23 June 1959
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.
01 January 1959
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.
11 August 1942
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
01 December 1939
A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner
01 January 1975
An elderly priest recruits a young woman as housekeeper in the presbytery he shares with two young priests, but temptation and jealousy soon sew discord and doubt in some minds.
25 August 1955
A look at some of the events that took place as part of the 1954 Edinburgh Festival.
