Sid James – TV Cream

What A Carve Up!

Horror paperback editor Kenneth Connor and bookie Sid James are challenged by Donald Pleasence to spend a night in a haunted house...

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Raising The Wind

Aka, er, Roommates. But this slight music college tale has Sid, Kenny, Jim Dale and Liz Fraser (plus Esma ‘Flo’ Cannon!), mixed...

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Smallest Show on Earth, The

This high-hat Lion Films chamber piece is eighty minutes of Ealing-equalling brilliance, with Pe’er Se’ers’ masterfully sozzled Percy the projectionist upstaged only...

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Too Many Crooks

Some embryonic George Cole in this very classy Ealing crime caper. The Putative Arfur and his bungling gang – including Bernard Bresslaw...

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What a Whopper!

Adam Faith searches for the Loch Ness monster (and, yes, sings the eponymous theme song) in the sort of fantasy comedy only...

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Out of the Clouds

One of the late-period Ealing drama series to cover a particular location or institution ( e.g. The Square Ring – boxing, Pool...

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Detective, The

Alec Guinness’s incarnation of Father Brown, Chesterton’s ecclesiastical eavesdropper. Here the clerical copper’s on the trail of master art thief Peter Finch....

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