Old British Comdies
Brit Coms from 1929-1969
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- DirectorRobert DayBasil DeardenStarsAlastair SimGeorge ColeTerry-ThomasAn assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.
- DirectorMario ZampiStarsAlastair SimFay ComptonGuy MiddletonAfter a millionaire practical joker dies, his fortune is divided among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsAlastair SimFrederick PiperHarry FowlerA 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.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsGeorge ColeVeronica HurstHeather ThatcherAfter a mix-up at a music hall, a henpecked bank clerk who lives a dreary existence in suburban London finds himself onstage with ambiguously foreign magician Mendoza, who hypnotizes him into losing all of his inhibitions.
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsPaul DouglasAlex MackenzieJames CopelandAn American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsBasil RadfordJoan GreenwoodCatherine LaceyScottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.
- DirectorRobert AsherStarsTerry-ThomasAthene SeylerHattie JacquesA weird mix of social misfits and neighbors becomes a gang of thieves stealing mink coats in order to fund local charities.
- DirectorMario ZampiStarsTerry-ThomasGeorge ColeBrenda de BanzieIn this spoof on crime films, four would-be criminals manage to botch every job they plan. When they try to rob wealthy Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they fail again. But the gang decides to kidnap his daughter.
- DirectorHenry CassStarsGordon HarkerBetty BalfourJimmy HanleyA group of young people are having a good time, when their parents return home unexpectedly from holiday.
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsAlastair SimBarry K. BarnesDiana ChurchillOn 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.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsMichael RedgraveRobert MorleyRonald SquireA British petty criminal lies to his son about his frequent prison terms by inventing honorable plausible explanations for his absences from home, but things get complicated when his son becomes a judge's assistant.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsBernard BresslawMichael MedwinAlfie BassA group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at landing one of the harshest territories is compensated when they discover a secret passage to the King's harem.
- DirectorJohn BoultingStarsIan CarmichaelRonald AdamHenry B. LonghurstIn World War II, a failed British officer is selected by his uncle, a brigadier with the War Office, to participate in a secret operation to recover looted artwork from the Germans.
- DirectorRoy BoultingStarsHenry B. LonghurstEdith SharpeIan CarmichaelRoger Thursby is just starting out as a barrister, full of ideals, but he is a bit too keen in the opinion of his fellow lawyers.
- DirectorC.M. Pennington-RichardsStarsPeggy MountRobert MorleyHarry H. CorbettThey 'do' clean offices. After finding an important piece of paper in the trash, the women are soon in business and make good use of it to save their old neighbourhood from the wreckers' ball.
- DirectorHenry CassStarsDavid TomlinsonHelen CherryMargaret RutherfordThe near-bankrupt Earl of Locharne must contend with a government agent trying to requisition his ancestral Scottish castle, as well as a beautiful American woman who wants to buy the place - to say nothing of the resident ghost.
- DirectorCharles SaundersStarsWally PatchCharles FarrellWallas EatonA gang of criminals win a marriage agency during a card game and plan to use it to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
- DirectorSidney GilliatStarsPatricia BredinEric BarkerJack HedleyAt 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.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsSonnie HaleMuriel AkedIt is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windshield as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus. Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes, and we discover the lives of all of the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con man with a hundred pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash, and past it, as some live and some die.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsAlec GuinnessGlynis JohnsValerie HobsonEdward Machin, an Edwardian-era young rogue of lowly origin, decides he must do what he can to raise his living standards in order to see the world and shape his own destiny.
- DirectorCharles FrendStarsDonald HoustonMeredith EdwardsMoira ListerBrothers from a Welsh village take their first trip to London to collect a prize, and meet a con artist and various other urban distractions.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsStanley HollowayGeorge RelphNaunton WayneVolunteers take over their local passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when the government announces its closure.
- DirectorHenry CassStarsReg DixonPeter MartynBelinda LeeReg is a scientist who invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance from the tobacco industry.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsAlastair SimElizabeth AllanRoland CulverNewly arrived Army chaplin Captain Paris (Alastair Sim) attempts to book various acts for the entertainment of a troop of soldiers.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsAlastair SimMargaret RutherfordJohn TurnbullChaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.