"Actor: Sim"

• An Inspector Calls | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young girl is murdered and an Inspector calls on a prosperous Yorkshire household investigating the sad circumstances behind her death. Each one of the family has a secret - and each one is partly responsible for the girl's fate. The determined Inspector must prove their collective guilt and the shattering denouncement reveals why. An adaptation of J.B. Priestley's classic play.

• The Ruling Class | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on Peter Barnes' hit play this caustic hilarious and irreverent black comedy has rightly become a cult classic. The House of Gurney has a family problem - namely the 14th Earl of Gurney (Peter O' Toole) who thinks he is Jesus Christ and when restored to `normalcy' turns into Jack the Ripper. Unfortunately the young earl is also the sole heir to the family fortune so his relatives go to great lengths to trick him into siring a new heir. Then they can institutionalise him and

• School For Scoundrels / The Green Man | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In School for Scoundrels wimpy Ian Carmichael wants to impress girls and get one over on all-round show-off and cad Terry Thomas (playing gloriously to type). Discovering Alastair Simms' unorthodox school Carmichael happily enrols and learns the quaint tricks of the day for securing the admiration of a fair lady. Ultimately as a star pupil he teaches the Master a thing or two about true love when everything turns out just fine in the end. Appealing to all male sensibilities is the idea of a magical set of simple rules for winning someone's affections. Set in the tweed-rich environment of an English boarding school makes this an even quainter notion. To watch this classic comedy is to cock one's snoot at womanisers everywhere while unavoidably making a mental list of anything that might actually work! The three central performances are brilliantly realised, particularly the role reversal between Carmichael and Thomas. Try playing a tennis match after a viewing without calling "hard cheese". -Paul Tonks

• Pandora and the Flying Dutchman | Blu Ray | (08/11/2021) from £12.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Raging Moon | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home.

• Terry-Thomas Collection - Comic Icons | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £26.79   |  Saving you £-1.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Terry-Thomas one of Britain's finest cinematic cads gets his very own box set. Good show! Featuring: 1. School For Scoundrels (1960) 2. His & Hers (1961) 3. Private's Progress (1956) 4. Make Mine Mink (1960) 5. Too Many Crooks (1959) 6. The Naked Truth (1957)

• Green For Danger | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Alastair Sim stars as the eccentric and irreverent Inspector Cockrill of the Kent County Police alongside Trevor Howard and Rosamund John in this truly classic and suspenseful murder mystery from the acclaimed film-making partnership of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. August 1944. German flying bombs are raining down on London. Directly under their flight path is a small cottage hospital. Inside the tension is almost unbearable for the dedicated team of surgeons and nurses - and no

• Her Majesty Mrs Brown | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £7.74   |  Saving you £8.25 (106.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A romantic drama, this John Madden film looks at the relationship between Queen Victoria and John Brown, a commoner who, though a servant, becomes her closest friend and confidant. As such, he proves the catalyst to bring her back into public life and out of her private mourning for the late Prince Albert. But the closeness of their friendship sets tongues wagging about the impropriety of what appears to be an affair between queen and commoner (an issue the film never directly addresses). Mrs Brown's charm lies in the flinty give-and-take between the wonderfully starchy Judi Dench as Victoria and the robust Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, here playing it straight as a strong-willed Scotsman who comes to enjoy the power he wields by virtue of having the queen's ear. Antony Sher is also striking as Prime Minister Disraeli, in a performance that all but shimmers with unspoken malice. --Marshall Fine

• The Long Kill | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £8.14   |  Saving you £0.84 (16.31%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two aging gunfighters (Nelson Kristofferson) re-form their old gang to avenge the murder of one of the former members...

• The Belles Of St Trinian's - 60th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (28/04/2014) from £10.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (109.19%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The Belles of St Trinian's is a classic comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's School released in 1954 directed by Frank Launder and written by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. Featuring a star cast of British comedy talent including - Alastair Sim as both Miss Millicent Fritton and Clarence Fritton Joyce Grenfell George Cole Beryl Reid and many others. This 60th anniversary edition has been fully restored plus features brand new extra content. The unruly schoolgirls of St. Trinian’s are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton who has kidnap on her mind. Special Features: The Girls of St Trinian’s Interview with Alistair Sim’s Daughter - Merlith McKendrick Interview with Geoff Brown - film historian Interview with Steve Chibnall – Professor of British Cinema De Montfort University Interview with Melanie Williams - Senior Lecturer in Film Studies UEA

• Ealing Comedy DVD Collection - Hue and Cry/Passport to Pimlico/The Titfield Thunderbolt | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £21.36   |  Saving you £13.63 (63.81%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This second collection of Ealing Comedy, while not quite as important a reissue as the first box, is nonetheless essential viewing for all aficionados of classic English film. In Passport to Pimlico a group of Londoners demonstrate, paradoxically, their Englishness by eccentrically choosing the Burgundian citizenship granted them by a rediscovered medieval charter. Similarly, in The Titfield Thunderbolt neighbours outraged by the closing of their local branch line steal an antique locomotive from the museum and run their own railway. A similar sense of taking charge of your own life fills Hue and Cry as a group of boys, infuriated that crooks have been using their favourite comic to send messages, summon scores of others by radio to help them track down and capture the gang. There are shared themes here, a shared sense of the importance of eccentricity and imagination to a healthy society as well as excellent ensemble acting from casts that include Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford and Sid James. The box is filled out with a television documentary about the history of Ealing Studios. It covers its early silent days, the golden age that produced the classic comedies and such important films as The Cruel Sea, its time as a BBC studio and its possible renaissance under new management. On the DVD: Ealing Comedy presents the three films and the documentary in 1.33:1 (i.e., 4:3), and has excellent mono sound that does full justice to both dialogue and scores. The extra features include introductions to the four films in the first box set by such luminaries as Terry Gilliam and Martin Scorsese as well as DVD-ROM files of the original brochures for all seven films. --Roz Kaveney

• Hansel And Gretel | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £6.48   |  Saving you £8.51 (131.33%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Once Upon A Time In A Dark Dark Forest... A dark and gripping modern age fairy tale for adults spinning the original Grimm fairytale on its head. Following a car crash on a country road Eun-soo (Chun Jeong-Myeong) is led to safety by a girl in a red cloak (Shim Eun-kyoung) to her house deep in the forest. Accepting her family's hospitality for the night he gradually learns that he is trapped in the woods with this strange picture perfect family and of the sinister story behind the seemingly innocent smiles of the children... Sumptuous production design by Ryu Seong-hee (The Host; Oldboy) and outstanding cinematography by Kim Ji-yong (Forbidden Quest; A Bittersweet Life).

• Keep Your Seats, Please | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £10.35   |  Saving you £5.64 (54.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An eccentric old lady decides the best way to pass on her fortune to her idiot nephew and keep it safe from her rapacious relatives is to hide it in a chair and get the nephew to buy it at auction. How could such a simple plan go wrong?

• Pandora And The Flying Dutchman | DVD | (25/05/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Albert Lewin's adaptation of the 'Flying Dutchman' legend transposes the story into an upper-class English-speaking community in a small port in 1930s Spain. James Mason stars as Hendrick van der Zee, a man cursed to travel the seven seas until he can find a woman willing to die for his love. He certainly does not think he has discovered her when he meets beautiful, spoiled, nightclub singer and femme fatale Pandora Reynolds (Ava Gardner), who is engaged to be married to racing driver Stephen Cameron (Nigel Patrick) but is also being courted by hotheaded bullfighter Juan Montalvo (Mario Cabre). However, the pair soon discover that love can blossom in the unlikeliest of places.

• James May's Toy Story | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £11.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (40.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  James May is a man on a mission: he wants to get kids out of their bedrooms and away from their games consoles he wants to drag parents off their backsides and get them all playing together again. In James May's Toy Stories he is going to take some of Britain's best-loved toys and put generations of families at the heart of some ludicrously ambitious adventures that will remind us all of the joys of making something together with toys that have long captured the imagination.

• The Happiest Days Of Your Life | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-1.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From acclaimed director Frank Launder The Happiest Days Of Your Life is a precursor to the hugely successful St. Trinian's series. Nutbourn College the most established and respectable of boys' schools is run by unyielding Headmaster Wetherby Pond [Alastair Sim.] When a military mistake billets a girls' school to share the college's premises due to wartime restrictions he is outraged. However he soon discovers he has met his match when he encounters the Headmistress of the girls' school in question the formidable Muriel Whitchurch [Margaret Rutherford]. Initially the two are hostile to one another but with a staff of dazed eccentric teachers and a student body whose mischief knows no bounds they are forced to pull together. Then just when they thought the situation couldn't get any more complicated they discover they are faced with two troublesome visits on the same day; one from a group of parents who must believe the school is only for girls and one from the Ministry who must be presented with an all boys establishment! Unmissable and hilarious this is classic British comedy at its best.

• Doctor Jekyll And Sister Hyde | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Professor Jekyll an earnest scientist obsessively works day and night haunted by the fear that one lifetime will not be enough to complete his research; sidetracked from his objective he becomes consumed with developing an immortality serum. Once convinced his findings are complete he consumes the potion only to discover that he is to become two as he turns into half Jekyll and half Hyde. Desperate to cover up his new found identity he calls her his sister but things take a turn for the worse when he realises that he needs female hormones if he is to maintain his existence. Before long he is battling with his alter ego Mrs Hyde as a number of young girls begin to go missing in the streets of London...

• Night My Number Came Up | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £10.35   |  Saving you £5.64 (54.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A pilot recounts a dream in which a plane carrying eight passengers crashes in the mountains of Japan. An Air Marshal due to fly to Tokyo the next day overhears the dream but thinks nothing of it until a series of events manages to convince him that the premonition might actually become a reality.

• Scrooge - A Christmas Carol (1951) | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Christmas just would not be the same without Alastair Sim giving the performance of a lifetime as Scrooge in this truly wonderful British adaptation of Charles Dickens immortal A Christmas Carol...

• Hue And Cry (Ealing) *Digitally Restored | Blu Ray | (29/06/2015) from £10.93   |  Saving you £12.06 (110.34%)   |  RRP £22.99

  HUE AND CRY is rightly acknowledged as something of a milestone in British cinema – being considered the first of the Ealing comedies – a pulsating and exuberant piece of filmmaking and one of the most authentic film portrayals of youthful adventure and comic book fantasy.