Alastair Sim Movies

A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner

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

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...

Compilation of classic British comedy moments

Investor Robert Norman murdered before meeting. Police investigate. Journalist Claire Haines pursues story to impress editor. Intertwining narratives...

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

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

An elderly priest recruits a young woman as housekeeper in the presbytery he shares with two young priests, but temptation and jealousy soon sew...

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

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.

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....

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.

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

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

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...

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

A look at some of the events that took place as part of the 1954 Edinburgh Festival.