Hue and Cry
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. The first of the Ealing comedies.
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
Rogue Male
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
An Inspector Calls
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. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?
Laughter in Paradise
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. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
The Green Man
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. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
Bikini Baby
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. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
The Millionairess
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.
Journey Together
Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
The Belles of St. Trinian's
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind. The first film in the classic comedy series.
Green for Danger
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
Bombsight Stolen
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.
Stage Fright
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Folly to Be Wise
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. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.
Wee Geordie
Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as "Wee Geordie" in the USA.
Innocents in Paris
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
A Christmas Carol
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.
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
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. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
Left Right and Centre
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. 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.
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Charles Crichton
Director
Barry Ford
as
Bit Part
Alastair Sim
as
Felix H. Wilkinson
Andrew Sachs
as
Schoolboy
Richard Wattis
as
Arnold Billings
George Cole
as
Junior Assistant Caretaker at Ministry of Education
Stringer Davis
as
Rev. Rich
Clive Donner
Director
John Standing
as
Major Quive-Smith
Harold Pinter
as
Saul Abrahams
Arthur Young
as
Mr. Birling
John Welsh
as
Shop Walker
Arthur Lowe
as
Radio Salesman
Michael Ripper
as
Waiter
Trevor Howard
as
Guest at Theater Accepting Program
Dennis Price
as
Simon Abott
Sophia Loren
as
Epifania
Roy Kinnear
as
Man Carrying Crate
Edward G. Robinson
as
Dean McWilliams
Jack Watling
as
John Aynesworth
Joan Sims
as
Miss Dawn
Shirley Eaton
as
Sixth Former
Roger Delgado
as
Sultan's Aide
Michael Wilding
as
Alan Trently
Arthur Hambling
as
Scotland Yard Inspector
Alfred Hitchcock
Director
Howard Marion-Crawford
as
1st Chauffeur
John Harvey
as
Inspector Loomis
Roland Culver
as
George Prout
Maria Charles
as
WRAC
Raymond Huntley
as
Olympic Selector
James Copeland
as
Andy McGregor
Laurence Harvey
as
François
Richard Pearson
as
Mr. Tupper
Bernard Fox
as
Photographer
Jack Hedley
as
Left - Bill Hemingway
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