Joan SimsFilmography

Born:: May 9, 1930 in Laindon, Essex, England
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Mischievious blonde British actress Joan Sims spent most of her formative film days playing cameo roles as brash cockneys. Often her characters had cultural pretensions, making her East End accent all the more amusing. Sims came to films from the stage and television in the early '50s. As her...Read More

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As Time Goes By: Season 09

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: The ninth and final season of As Time Goes By finds Lionel (Geoffrey Palmer) trying to smooth the rocky romantic path for his stepdaughter Judy (Moira Brooker), who has become re-engaged to Lionel's publisher Alistair (Philip Bretherton). Emboldened by the Alistair-Judy example, policeman Harry (David Michaels Read More

2002
As Time Goes By: Season 08

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: The eighth season of As Time Goes By finds golden-age sweethearts Lionel (Geoffrey Palmer) and Jean (Judi Dench) fretting over the breakup of the romance between Lionel's publisher Alistair (Philip Bretherton) and Jean's daughter Judy (Moira Brooker). At the same time, Jean's employee Sandy (Jenny Funnell Read More

2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Actors: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Olympia Dukakis, Leslie Caron, Cleo Laine

Synopsis: A group of trailblazing female musicians try to take another shot at success in this musical comedy-drama produced for the premium cable network HBO. In the 1940s, the Blonde Bombshells were the finest all-female jazz band in the U.K., playing hot swing music that helped raise England's Read More

2000
As Time Goes By: Season 07

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: Season seven of As Time Goes By details the future misadventures of golden-age lovers Lionel (Geoffrey Palmer) and Jean (Judi Dench), beginning with Jean's efforts to do something about Lionel's encroaching deafness, even as he frets about her (supposedly) failing eyesight. In other episodes Read More

1998
As Time Goes By: Season 06

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: The sixth season of As Time Goes By finds senior-citizen newlyweds Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and Jean Parteger (Judi Dench) more or less adjusted to their marital status. Still, Lionel remains a blustery blowhard, the better to make a fool of himself when trying to prove that he's just Read More

1997
The Canterville Ghost

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Neve Campbell

Synopsis: This modern TV-movie update of the Oscar Wilde tale is noteworthy for a grandiose performance by Patrick Stewart as the melancholy spectre of Sir Simon Canterville, doomed to wander the corridors of his vast estate for the past four centuries in guilt and despair over his wife's suicide. Stewart Read More

1996
As Time Goes By: Season 05

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: Season five of As Time Goes By picks up where the previous season left off: with sixtysomething newlyweds Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and Jean Parteger (Judi Dench) adjusting to life together after years of contented loneliness. Jean is in for a shock early in the season when she comes Read More

1996
As Time Goes By: Season 04

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: The fourth season of As Time Goes By finds acerbic author Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) upset over the fact that his sweetheart, Jean Parteger (Judi Dench), with whom he has moved in as a means of rekindling their romance from four decades earlier, has invited lovelorn employee Sandy (Jenny Funnell Read More

1995
As Time Goes By: Season 03

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: Season three of As Time Goes By finds sixtyish author Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and like-vintage businesswoman Jean Parteger (Judi Dench) deciding to pick up their romance where they left off four decades earlier by moving in together, a decision that leads to a comedy of errors and Read More

1994
Martin Chuzzlewit

Synopsis: Charles Dickens' 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewit was given one of its few TV presentations in this six-part British adaptation, which originally aired on BBC2 from November 7 to December 12, 1994. The youngest son of a mercenary London family, Martin Chuzzlewit was sent to America to learn the Read More

1994
As Time Goes By: Season 02

Actors: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Moira Brooker, Jenny Funnell, Philip Bretherton

Synopsis: In the second season of As Time Goes By, author Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and businesswoman Jean Parteger (Judi Dench) are still toying with the notion of resuming their romance which had been interrupted years earlier. In the course of the season's half-dozen episodes, Jean expresses Read More

1993
Victoria Wood [TV Series]

Actors: Victoria Wood, Celia Imrie, Julie Walters, Duncan Preston, Lill Roughley

Synopsis: Having previously headlined a series of short TV skits and monologues, British comedienne-composer Victoria Wood graduated to the anthology format in this six-episode offering. Individual episode titles included "Mens Sana in Thingummy Doodah," "The Library," "Over to Pam," "We'd Quite Like to Read More

1989
A Murder Is Announced

Actors: Joan Hickson

Synopsis: Joan Hickson stars as Miss Jane Marple in this made-for-TV adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery tales. An odd advertisement appears in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette, which announces that a murder will take place on October 5 at 7 p.m. at a cottage in Little Paddocks. Read More

1987
Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 4

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Tom Chadbon, Timothy Walker, Roger Brierley

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of the Time Lord," the Valeyard (Michael Jayston) uses videotaped evidence in hopes of proving that the Doctor (Colin Baker) was guilty of breaking the Laws of Time on the planet Ravolox. But the Doctor contends that he and his Read More

1986
Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 3

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Michael Jayston, Lynda Bellingham, Tony Selby

Synopsis: In the third episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of the Time Lord," the Doctor (Colin Baker), on trial for his life, is confronted with videotaped evidence of his "disobedient" behavior on the planet Ravolox. It is up to the Doctor and his companion, Peri (Nicola Bryant), that their Read More

1986
Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 2

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Michael Jayston, Lynda Bellingham, Tony Selby

Synopsis: In the second episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of a Time Lord," the Doctor (Colin Baker) faces a death sentence unless he can prove that his breaking of the Laws of Time was for a good purpose. As evidence for the prosecution, the Valeyard (Michael Jayston) shows the Doctor and his Read More

1986
Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 1

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Michael Jayston, Lynda Bellingham, Glen Murphy

Synopsis: Returning to television after an overlong hiatus (save for a brief "revival" in the BBC radio serial "Slipback"), Doctor Who launched its 23rd season on September 6, 1986. In an unusual move, the producers decided to devote the entire season to a single continuity, with the overall title "The Read More

1986
Deceptions

Actors: Stefanie Powers

Synopsis: Stefanie Powers does double duty as twin sisters in the two-part TV movie Deceptions. Stefanie #1 is a glamorous globetrotter; Stefanie #2 is a drab New Jersey housewife. On a whim, the two siblings exchange identities, leading to a dizzying series of unexpected complications. Filmed on location Read More

1985
Carry on Emmannuelle

Actors: Suzanne Danielle, Kenny Williams, Kenneth Connor, Jack Douglas, Joan Sims

Synopsis: The Carry On series is living on fumes in this late entry. An unofficial burlesque of the Emmanuelle series (albeit with a single modification: the spelling of the name was changed to 'Emmannuelle' to avoid legal complications), the film centers upon Emmannuelle Prevert (Suzanne Danielle) and her Read More

1978
Born and Bred [TV Series]

1978
Carry on England

Actors: Kenneth Connor, Windsor Davies, Patrick Mower, Judy Geeson, Jack Douglas

Synopsis: The long-running series of British "Carry On" comedies was nearing the end of the line when this 28th film in the cycle was released in 1976. Set in World War II, Carry On England explores what happens when the British military decides to set up an experimental mixed-gender anti-aircraft battery. Read More

1976
Carry on Dick

Actors: Sidney James, Barbara Windsor, Kenny Williams, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Jack Douglas, Patsy Rowlands, Bill Maynard, Margaret Nolan, John Clive, David Lodge, Marianne Stone

Synopsis: This threadbare "Carry On" comedy is set in the 18th century and concerns a fellow with a dual identity: by day, he's the Reverend Flasher; after dusk, he moonlights as the treacherous highwayman Dick Turpin. (Both are played by Sidney James). Dogooders Captain Desmond Fancey (Kenneth Williams) Read More

1975
Carry on Behind

Actors: Elke Sommer, Kenny Williams, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Connor, Jack Douglas, Joan Sims, Windsor Davies, Peter Butterworth, Liz Fraser, Patsy Rowlands, Ian Lavender, Adrienne Posta, Patricia Franklin, Donald Hewlett, Carol Hawkins

Synopsis: The British comedy group chalks up another few laughs as some folks attempt to camp out on the location of an archaeological dig. Unfortunately, the dig in question happens amid the busyness of the holiday season; matters grow more complicated when a sexy female Russian woman (Elke Sommer) joins Read More

1975
Not Now, Comrade

Actors: Ray Cooney, Roy Kinnear, Carol Hawkins

Synopsis: Lewis Flander and Carol Hawkins star in the hectic British farce Not Now Comrade. Flander plays a Russian ballet dancer who decides to defect. Unable to reach the British embassy, Flander hides out with London stripteaser Hawkins. There's an abundance of female flesh in this one, a fact that Read More

1975
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Clive Revill, Derek Nimmo, Joan Sims

Synopsis: In this comical Disney espionage adventure, a herd of nannies team up with Scotland Yard and set off to find important microfilm that was concealed, by a wicked Chinese spy, within the skeleton of a dinosaur that now sits in the British Natural History Museum ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Love Among the Ruins

Actors: Katharine Hepburn

Synopsis: Made for television, Love Among the Ruins was a precious one-time-only collaboration between stars Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Oliver, and director George Cukor. The scene is Victorian London, where wealthy widow Hepburn is being sued for breach of promise by her much-younger ex-fiance. Olivier Read More

1975
Carry on Abroad

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Jimmy Logan, June Whitfield, Hattie Jacques, Derek Francis, Sally Geeson, Ray Brooks, Carol Hawkins

Synopsis: This film brings more ribald nonsense from the British "Carry On" gang. This time the setting is the Spanish resort town of Elsbels. A group of stereotypical British tourists - led by courier Stuart Farquhar (Kenneth Williams) show up for a four-day weekend at a "luxury hotel." There are only two Read More

1974
Carry on Matron

Actors: Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor

Synopsis: The last of four "medical" entries in the Carry On series is also the lewdest; whether it's the funniest is a matter of taste (taste?) The action takes places at Finisham Maternity Hospital. If you liked that "Finisham" gag, you'll adore such characters as Susan Ball, Miss Willing, and Mrs. Read More

1973
Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!

Actors: Katy Manning

Synopsis: In this comedy, based on a stage play, a randy politician gets in trouble for sleeping with his secretary and another woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1973
Carry on Girls

Actors: Sidney James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Bresslaw, June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth, Jack Douglas, Patsy Rowlands, Joan Hickson

Synopsis: The "Carry On" gang returns with Sidney Fiddler (Sid James) conning the local council into running a beauty pageant to promote their community. He's thrilled with the prospect of entertaining all the lovely young contestants, but his girlfriend has a different plan in mind. Soon, a women's Read More

1973
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

Actors: Bruce Forsyth, Joan Sims, Roy Hudd

Synopsis: A collection of English humor in the form of sketch film are provided on this film which was assisted by comedians Feldman and Chapman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1971
Carry on at Your Convenience

Synopsis: In this episode of the popular British comedy series, the characters must cope with the chaos caused when big business and the unions get together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
A Christmas Carol

Actors: Alastair Sim, Michael Hordern, Melvyn Hayes, Joan Sims, Paul Whitsun-Jones

Synopsis: This well-animated version of Dickens' classic Christmas story stays quite faithful to its source as it chronicles the painful lesson learned by a bitter old miser whose money lust alienates him from humanity. His lesson comes in the form of ghostly intervention from a trio of spirits who force Read More

1971
Doctor in Trouble

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Harry Secombe, James Robertson Justice, Angela Scoular, Irene Handl

Synopsis: This offbeat comedy begins when Doctor Burke (Leslie Phillips) chases the beautiful Ophelia (Angela Scoular) on board an ocean liner and is trapped. He masquerades as a female photographer to avoid detection, hoping to propose marriage to Ophelia. Burke tries to avoids the suspicion of pompous Read More

1970
Carry on Loving

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques

Synopsis: This is the 20th feature in the successful "Carry On" series of bawdy slapstick comedies. Sidney Bliss (Sidney James) and his faithful assistant Sophie (Hattie Jacques) run a bogus matrimonial agency designed to unite people looking for love and romance. One couple never speaks a word in the film Read More

1970
Carry on Henry

Synopsis: This bawdy entry in the long-running series of British "Carry On" comedies is set in the court of King Henry the VIII and centers on the gang's attempt to freshen up the odiferous Queen Marie and thereby save her head. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1970
Carry on up the Jungle

Actors: Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Terry Scott

Synopsis: An extremely low budget -- shot on an obvious studio set and featuring cheap and grainy stock footage -- only adds to the hilarity in this 1970 entry in the "Carry On" series. Series stalwarts Sidney James and Joan Sims star, as the gang head deep into the Amazon in search of an endangered species Read More

1970
Carry on Again, Doctor

Actors: Kenny Williams, Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Jim Dale, Hattie Jacques

Synopsis: The British "Carry On" series was in its 12th year when Carry On Again, Doctor was unleashed upon a panting public in 1969. Veteran Carry On-ers Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Jim Dale and Barbara Windsor fill the principal roles in this hospital farce. Read More

1969
Carry on Camping

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw

Synopsis: The "Carry On" gravy train continues in this entry that registers high on the randiness and vulgarity levels. Sid Boggle (Sidney James) and his best pal Bernie Lugg (Bernard Bresslaw) take off for the holidays with their girlfriends Joan Fussey (Joan Sims) and Anthea meeks (Dilys Laye). The gals Read More

1969
Carry on up the Khyber

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Roy Castle, Joan Sims

Synopsis: The Carry On gang carries on with this 17th entry in the gang's never-ending series of lowbrow British comedy films. This time the Carry On crowd spoofs the stiff-upper-lip, "defending-the-Empire" epics of an earlier era. Comic opera British troops are sent to the Khyber Pass to prevent the local Read More

1968
Carry on Doctor

Actors: Frankie Howerd, Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale

Synopsis: The producers of the popular British "Carry On" series aren't going to fix something if it is not broken. This workable, slapstick comedy returns to a hospital setting and benefits from the same gags that made Carry On, Nurse a top draw in Britain. Instead of Dr. Kildare, this emergency unit has Read More

1968
Follow That Camel

Actors: Phil Silvers, Jim Dale, Peter Butterworth, Charles Hawtrey, Kenny Williams

Synopsis: Though not advertised as such, Follow That Camel was an entry in Britain's long-running "Carry On" series. Phil Silvers stars as Sgt. Nocker, a self-styled hero of the Foreign Legion. Nocker's feet of clay are readily apparent to young recruit Bertram Oliphant West (Jim Dale), but "orders is Read More

1967
Don't Lose Your Head

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Butterworth

Synopsis: Part of the "Carry On Series", this is a satire on the French Revolution in which Sidney James portrays the Black Fingernail, a rip-off Scarlet Pimpernel using double entendres and jokes of questionable taste and a wide variety of disguises to hid his identity. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1967
Doctor in Clover

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Shirley Ann Field, John Fraser, Joan Sims

Synopsis: Doctor in Clover is the next-to-last entry in the British "Doctor" comedy film series. After losing his government job, doctor Gaston Grimsdyke (Leslie Phillips) signs up for a medical school course with his old tutor-nemesis Sir Lancelot Spratt (welcome back, James Robertson Justice). What Read More

1966
Carry on Screaming

Actors: Harry H. Corbett, Kenny Williams, Fenella Fielding, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey

Synopsis: One of several satirical films in the British "Carry On" series, this is a broad spoof of horror films in general and of Universal monster movies in particular. The buffoonish heroes -- a pair of inept Scotland Yard inspectors named Bung and Slowbottom -- are investigating the disappearance of Read More

1966
San Ferry Ann

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a group of aged travelers on vacation in France have many fun encounters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1965
The Big Job

Actors: Sidney James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery, Lance Percival, Joan Sims

Synopsis: Though long defunct in the United States, the tiny production firm of Pathe continued churning out British programmers into the 1960s. Pathe's The Big Job stars Sidney James, Dick Emery and Lance Percival as a trio of none-too-bright bank robbers. Released from jail after 15 years, the intrepid Read More

1965
Carry on Cleo

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims

Synopsis: The multi-million dollar film extravaganza Cleopatra was too convenient a target for Britain's "Carry On" funsters to ignore. The plot of Carry on Cleo, if one can discern a plot amidst the sight gags and outrageous puns, involves the attempts by a bungling slave (Kenneth Connor) to rescue Julius Read More

1965
Nurse on Wheels

Actors: Juliet Mills, Ronald Lewis, Joan Sims, Noel Purcell, Esma Cannon

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a new nurse comes to replace her predecessor, the town pump, in an English country town. Soon, she herself becomes grist for the nasty town rumor mill. Fortunately, she becomes friends with the town doctor, his son, and shop owner. As the nurse is a dreadful driver, she Read More

1964
A Pair of Briefs

Synopsis: In this drama, two young attorneys working for their uncle, find themselves facing off in court. One of the is defending a wife; the other, her husband who is suing for conjugal rights. As both lawyers are fresh from law school, things in court are often chaotic, and they suffer several fiascoes Read More

1963
Carry on Cowboy

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims

Synopsis: In one of the best of the long-running Carry On series, Western clichés are run through the Carry-On wringer. The film takes place in wild and woolly Stodge City, a town held in thrall to the nasty dealings of The Rumpo Kid (Sidney James). The Rumpo Kid holds the town in such abject terror that Read More

1963
The Swingin' Maiden

1963
Strictly for the Birds

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a gambler tries to win his fortune at the racetrack. While there he finds himself duped by a beautiful blonde con artist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1963
Twice Round the Daffodils

Actors: Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Ronald Lewis, Kenny Williams, Jill Ireland

Synopsis: This entertaining farce is from the director who brought the world the highly successful "Carry On..." comedies -- Gerald Thomas -- and exhibits some of his hand at slapstick situations. The premise, based on the play Ring for Catty, is hardly complex. Nurse Catty (Juliet Mills) is one of the main Read More

1962
His and Hers

Actors: Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Nicole Maurey

Synopsis: This scattered, slightly anarchic and uneven comedy stars the inimitable Terry-Thomas as Reggie Blake, a writer whose books are created by the adventures he experiences, thanks to the brainstorms of his editor. His latest adventure finds him truly lost in the desert and adopted by a tribe of Read More

1961
I Like Money

Actors: Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom, Leo McKern, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Mr. Topaze was based on a play by Marcel Pagnol, previously filmed twice before with John Barrymore and Fernandel. Peter Sellers stars as a French college professor, known far and wide for his integrity. He refuses to improve a grade on the paper of one student, whose influential father sees to it Read More

1961
Carry on Regardless

Actors: Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenny Williams

Synopsis: The "Carry On" gang take on employment agencies in this labored edition to the long-running comedy series. Sidney James is Bert Handy, who starts an employment agency by the name of "Helping Hands, Ltd." Bert proceeds to hire a bunch of loonies to do a collection of screwball jobs employers want Read More

1961
Watch Your Stern

Actors: Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Noel Purcell, Hattie Jacques

Synopsis: Based on the play Something About a Sailor by Earle Couttie, this film is a screwball comedy about the British navy. Kenneth Connor is Officer Blissworth, who is an inept bungler of a sailor. With an equally inadequate partner, Captain David Foster (Eric Barker), he loses the plans for modifying Read More

1961
No, My Darling Daughter

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Michael Craig, Roger Livesey, Rad Fulton, Juliet Mills

Synopsis: In this comedy, the daughter of a British aristocrat is sent to Parisian finishing school where she falls in love with a charming American student, and discovers that his father is a business associate of her own. Paternal trouble ensues when her young man forgets to deliver an important letter to Read More

1961
Please Turn Over

Actors: Ted Ray, Jean Kent, Leslie Phillips, Julia Lockwood

Synopsis: Please Turn Over is an updated British variation on a theme put forth by the old Hollywood film Theodora Goes Wild. A bored young teenage girl (Julia Lockwood) causes a scandal when she pens a torrid bestseller. Those close to the girl recognize themselves as characters in the book; all they can Read More

1960
Upstairs and Downstairs

Actors: Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, Claudia Cardinale, Sidney James, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims

Synopsis: A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for a housemaid, with a series of impossible women providing the hilarity. When Richard and Kate (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) return from their honeymoon, they discover Read More

1960
Doctor in Love

Actors: Michael Craig, Virginia Maskell, Leslie Phillips, Carole Lesley

Synopsis: This is the fourth in a series of "doctor" films that began in 1953 with Doctor in the House. Unlike its predecessors, the chief medico is now Dr. Richard Hare (Michael Craig) and he tends to share the spotlight with a few colleagues, making this more of an ensemble effort. Dr. Hare is in his own Read More

1960
The Captain's Table

Actors: John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Donald Sinden, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: A typical light comedy based on a novel by Richard Gordon, The Captain's Table has director Jack Lee at its own helm, riding high on the success of his 1956 A Town Like Alice. Captain Ebbs (John Gregson) brings a part of his freighter experience with him as he takes charge of an ocean liner for Read More

1960
Carry on Constable

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Hattie Jacques, Eric Barker, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor

Synopsis: The "Carry On" gang take on law enforcement in this rude and crude slapstick comedy. When a flu epidemic leaves a British police station decimated with illness, three incompetent rookies are given the chance to prove themselves as police officers. The three screwy recruits are Tom Potter (Leslie Phillips Read More

1960
Carry on Teacher

Actors: Ted Ray, Kenneth Connor, Kenny Williams, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey

Synopsis: This third entry in the "Carry On" sweepstakes concerns William Wakefield (Ted Ray), the much-loved headmaster at a British school, who applies for a new job at a recently built country school. When Felicity Wheeler (Rosalind Knight) and Alistair Grigg (Leslie Phillips) from the Ministry of Read More

1959
Life in Emergency Ward 10

Actors: Michael Craig, Dorothy Alison, Glyn Owen

Synopsis: This film is based on the popular British TV series Emergency Ward 10. A surgeon arrives from the U.S. with a new heart-lung machine in order to save a young boy who has a hole in his heart. The doctor is treated coolly by a jealous rival, and an old man dies while on the new life-saving machine. Read More

1959
Carry on Nurse

Actors: Kenneth Connor, Kenny Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Terence Longdon, Leslie Phillips, Bill Owen, Hattie Jacques

Synopsis: The "Carry On" gang take up residence in the men's ward of a British hospital in this wildly funny and wildly crude farce. There's not much of a plot, but plenty of nudging and winking, as the male patients line up by their bedpans as a mixed assortment of female nurses tend to their every whim. Read More

1959
Davy

Actors: Harry Secombe, Ron Randell, George Relph, Susan Shaw, Bill Owen

Synopsis: Corpulent "Goon Show" regular Harry Secombe plays the title role in the British comedy Davy. Set in the rarefied world of the British music halls, the film focuses in on the Mad Morgans, a family song-and-dance act. It is clear that Davy Morgan is the star of the act, but he loyally remains with Read More

1958
Room 43

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Diana Dors, Odile Versois, Herbert Lom, Brenda de Banzie

Synopsis: Before Eddie Constantine became a French pop icon as the slapdash "Lemmy Caution," he played Johnny, a straightforward London taxi driver. When his new taxi is smashed and he needs a big loan, he agrees to a five-minute marriage to Malou, a naive French girl, so she can become a British citizen. Read More

1958
No Time for Tears

Actors: Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, George Baker, Alan White

Synopsis: Anna Neagle steps down from her expensive musical extravaganzas to play a recognizable human being in No Time for Tears. She plays the dedicated director of a busy children's hospital, battling red tape, family hassles and public indifference. A large and stellar cast appears in this episodic Read More

1957
Carry on Admiral

Actors: David Tomlinson, Peggy Cummins, Brian Reece, Eunice Gayson, A.E. Matthews

Synopsis: The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they decide to trade places for a while. One of the boozers is a public relations man who knows nothing about sailing, while the other is a captain for the Royal Navy. Riotous comic Read More

1957
Just My Luck

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Jill Dixon, Leslie Phillips, Delphi Lawrence, Margaret Rutherford, Joan Sims

Synopsis: Norman Wisdom, Britain's much-funnier answer to Jerry Lewis, stars in Just My Luck. Wisdom plays a humble jewelry-store clerk who begins playing the horses, the better to raise enough money to buy a fancy gift for girlfriend Anne (Jill Dixon). Much to his surprise, Wisdom wins a fortune at the Read More

1957
The Naked Truth

Actors: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Released in the U.S. as Your Past Is Showing, the British The Naked Truth is a wickedly funny satire of the tabloid-press industry. Dennis Price plays a scandal-sheet publisher named Nigel Dennis who lives high on the hog by blackmailing his wealthy targets. Several of Dennis' victims, including Read More

1957
The Silken Affair

Actors: David Niven, Geneviève Page, Ronald Squire, Beatrice Straight

Synopsis: Directed by Roy Kellino, this British comedy stars David Niven as Roger Tweakham, an accountant for a silk manufacturer who finds himself digging deeper and deeper into trouble. Not only is he suddenly smitten by a French model (Geneviève Page) despite his marriage to his wife (Dorothy Alison) Read More

1956
Cash on Delivery

Actors: Shelley Winters, John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Mona Washbourne

Synopsis: Time is of the essence in this comedy when an American cabaret singer learns that she is in line for a large inheritance. The money will be hers if her ex-husband cannot produce a son by a given date. She immediately takes off to London to find him. Unfortunately, she discovers that his new wife Read More

1956
Keep It Clean

Synopsis: In this comedy, an ad man attempts to promote his brother-in-law's new cleaning machine. He is backed by a member of the Purity League. It isn't easy, but he eventually helps the product go public. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1956
Dry Rot

Synopsis: In this comedy three bookies attempt to win back their recent losses by kidnapping the favored horse and substituting it with a heavily drugged nag. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1956
Stars in Your Eyes

Actors: Nat Jackley, Patricia Kirkwood, Bonar Colleano, Jack Jackson, Vera Day

Synopsis: Stars in Your Eyes is a glorified "vaudeville" picture, tied together by the thinnest of plotlines. As the top British vaudeville houses begin closing their doors, a great many entertainers are thrown out of work. At the instigation of music-hall headliners Sally Bishop (Patricia Kirkwood) and Read More

1956
Doctor at Sea

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, Brenda de Banzie, James Robertson Justice, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: This second entry in the British "Doctor" series once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young medico Simon Sparrow. Securing his first job as ship's doctor on a freighter, Simon again runs afoul of James Robertson Justice, here cast not as the irascible Sir Lancelot Sprat but as ship's captain Hogg. Read More

1955
As Long As They're Happy

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Janette Scott, Jean Carson, Brenda de Banzie, Diana Dors, Susan Stephen

Synopsis: Not quite a full-fledged musical, As Long as They're Happy can be described as a romantic comedy with song-and-dance interludes. Adapted from the London stage hit of the same name, the film stars Jack Buchanan as stockbroker John Bentley, whose household is thrown into a tizzy when popular singing Read More

1955
Tears for Simon

Actors: David Farrar, David Knight, Julia Arnall, Anthony Oliver

Synopsis: An 18-month-old baby disappears in London. The parents, US embassy worker David Knight and his wife Julia Arnall, are panic-stricken. Detective David Farrar tries to locate the child, but clues are scarce. At the last possible moment, Farrar rescues the infant from a grueling fate and collars the Read More

1955
What Every Woman Wants

Actors: William Sylvester, Elsy Albiin, Patric Doonan, Dominic Roche

Synopsis: What Every Woman Wants!, at least according to this British comedy-drama, is a roof over her head. Elsy Albin and Patric Doonan play Jane and Mark, a newlywed couple with no home of their own. Forced to live with Jane's parents, the young marrieds are never permitted a moment's privacy. Read More

1954
The Sea Shall Not Have Them

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Jack Watling, Anthony Steel

Synopsis: The Sea Shall Not Have Them is our candidate for the most dramatic title of any British World War II film. Happily, the film itself upholds the promise of its name. The focus of the story is a dramatic rescue at sea, which consumes well over a third of the running time. A British bomber carrying Read More

1954
The Belles of St. Trinian's

Actors: Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Betty Ann Davies

Synopsis: Belles of St. Trinian's was the first of several British comedies inspired by the fear-inspiring girl's school created by cartoonist Ronald Searle. The girls of St. Trinian's aim their deviltry at a gang of crooks who plan to steal a famous race horse. Alastair Sim wraps up the proceedings with Read More

1953
Trouble in Store

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Moira Lister, Derek Bond, Lana Morris

Synopsis: Ebullient British music-hall comedian Norman Wisdom made his movie debut in Trouble in Store. The scene is a large department store, where the bumbling Norman (Wisdom) has somehow landed a clerical job. The rest of the film is a series of slapstick catastrophes, some hilarious, others less so. Read More

1953
Doctor in the House

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall

Synopsis: The first of the popular British "Doctor" comedy series, Doctor in the House stars Dirk Bogarde as callow young medical student Simon Sparrow. Beginning his five-year internship at St. Swithin's Teaching Hospital, Sparrow continually runs afoul of head doctor Sir Lancelot Sprat (James Robertson-Justice Read More

1953
The Square Ring

Actors: Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Bill Owen, Maxwell Reed, George Rose

Synopsis: The contentious world of prizefighting provides the setting of this episodic drama that chronicles the lives of five different fighters. Each of the fighters explains their reasons for becoming professional pugilists. One of the fighters, Kid Curtis, ends up dead after a particularly brutal Read More

1953
Meet Mr. Lucifer

Actors: Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Joseph Tomelty

Synopsis: Though Meet Mr. Lucifer reads rather better than it plays, the film is still good for a few healthy laughs. Stanley Holloway plays Hollingsworth, an actor who is playing Lucifer in a stage production. While being hoisted through a trap door, Hollingsworth is knocked cold. While unconscious, he is Read More

1953
Will Any Gentleman?

Actors: George Cole, Veronica Hurst, Jon Pertwee, James Hayter, Heather Thatcher

Synopsis: Based on the stage farce by Vernon Sylvanie, Will Any Gentleman? stars George Cole as milquetoast bank clerk Henry Sterling. While attending a music hall show, Sterling accidentally falls under the spell of stage hypnotist Mendoza (Alan Badel). Undergoing a complete change of character, Sterling Read More

1952
Colonel March Investigates

Actors: Boris Karloff

Synopsis: This murder mystery is comprised of three pilot episodes of a British television series. The story centers around the odd cases that come into the Department of Queer Complaints at Scotland Yard. The protagonist is the head of the department and wears a black eye patch and cloak. His job is to Read More

1952

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