Alastair Sim Collection
Actors: Alastair Sim
Rating: PG
Summary: A collection of classic Alastair Sim films, comprising:
- The Green Man – Hawkins (Sim) is a timid clockmaker with a part time job; International Assassination Expert. He hasn’t been getting too many assignments recently, but his latest mission will put him back on the top of his profession. However, he stalks the wrong target, blowing up a boring politician instead and now he must pay the price for his breezy bungling in this murderously funny black comedy!
- Folly To Be Wise – A newly-arrived army padre 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 panellists than he wants to know about – though the audience obviously thinks differently. Geordie Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. At the age of 21, he displays a talent for hammer-throwing, and is selected to represent Britain in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia.
- Geordie – Geordie is a slight of frame and puny gamekeeper’s son who feels that the girl he loves is ignoring him because of his size. He decides to take a correspondence course in body-building. At 21, Geordie becomes one of the tallest and strongest men in Scotland and an expert at throwing the hammer. His success story leads him to represent Britain in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. But will the new man that he is be able to charm Jean, his life-long sweetheart?
- Left Right And Centre – This rollicking political satire stars Ian Carmichael as an impressionable British TV personality. His vanity is stroked by a group of political managers who talk him into running on the Conservative ticket during a political campaign. The managers hope that Carmichael’s name value will draw voters, but don’t intend to permit him anything like actual legislative power. Carmichael suddenly develops an abiding interest in politics when he meets his Labour Party opponent—lovely Patricia Breden. Left, Right and Center is blessed with an abundance of supporting character comedians, headed by Alistair Sim as Carmichael’s avaricious uncle.
- Laughter in Paradise – When wealthy, well-known practical joker Henry Russell (Hugh Griffith) dies, four relatives find out that they stand to inherit considerable sums…provided they commit acts that are completely contrary to their natures. Law-abiding Deniston Russell (Alastair Sim) has to get himself arrested and jailed for 28 days. Difficult, snobbish Agnes Russell (Fay Compton) has to find work as a maid and keep her job long enough to qualify. She ends up with irascible Gordon Webb (John Laurie), who deduces that his new servant has to keep her job for some reason and proceeds to make her life difficult. Simon Russell (Guy Middleton) is a womanizing cad; his task is to marry the first woman he meets. Herbert Russell (George Cole) is assigned to rob the bank where he works.