Sidney James
Birthday: 1913-05-08
Place of Birth: Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa
Biography: Sidney James (born Solomon Joel Cohen; May 8, 1913 – April 26, 1976) was a South African-born English-based actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona. Bruce Forsyth summed up his talent thus: "He was a natural at being natural."
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s schoo...
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Don't Lose Your Head
Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to En...
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Carry On Doctor
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over ma...
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Carry On Cowboy
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a ...
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Carry On Cleo
Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved b...
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Carry On Constable
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police...
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Carry On Up the Khyber
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilte...
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The Flanagan Boy
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the street...
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The Titfield Thunderbolt
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of loc...
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Carry On Henry
Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunat...
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Carry On Loving
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-...
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Carry On Matron
A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Fini...
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Carry On Regardless
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series o...
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The Silent Enemy
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously...
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Quatermass 2
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the ...
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Carry On Dick
Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock St...
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Carry On Girls
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seasi...
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The House Across the Lake
Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art o...
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The Lavender Hill Mob
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal go...
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Carry On Cruising
Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short no...
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Trapeze
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the du...
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The Smallest Show on Earth
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegra...
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Another Time, Another Place
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent...
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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the lo...
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For Better, for Worse
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are no...
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The Iron Petticoat
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she ...
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Hell Drivers
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money....
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The Big Job
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught a...
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Bless This House
The legendary Sid James stars as the head of a chaotic household in this movie spin-off from the hit...
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Raising the Wind
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Rober...
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Carry On Up the Jungle
The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expediti...
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Box for One
A man on the run from a gang of criminals makes a series of increasingly panicked calls from a phone...
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That's Carry On!
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Will...
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Carry On Abroad
A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get the...
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Carry On Cabby
Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, ...
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Carry On Again Doctor
Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion b...
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Carry On at Your Convenience
At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the dro...
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Carry On Camping
Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea, so...
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Double Bunk
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. Aft...
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The Rainbow Jacket
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next ch...
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The Square Ring
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers....
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Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England i...
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Venetian Bird
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Sho...
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Campbell's Kingdom
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom...
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Nightbeat
After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty crimin...
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Give Us This Day
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in t...
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Stop Messin' About!: The Very Best of Kenneth Williams
Documentary and celebration of the life and career of British comedian Kenneth Williams....
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I Was Monty's Double
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery...
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Watch Your Stern
When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship ra...
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Orders Are Orders
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a l...
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Father Brown
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two ...
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Tommy the Toreador
Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he...
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Carry on Christmas
Sid James as Father Christmas recounts times of the festive season through the ages, from life in st...
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Carry On Christmas
Ebenezer Scrooge is a misery on Christmas, not allowing people money or doing anything to share Chri...
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The Glass Cage
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on v...
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Make Mine a Million
Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem...
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A Weekend with Lulu
Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for wa...
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The Galloping Major
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortuna...
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Seagulls Over Sorrento
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their sci...
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Paper Orchid
Paper Orchid is a 1949 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker, with a script written by Val G...
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The Man in Black
A woman conspires to steal her stepdaughter's inheritance following the mysterious death of her mill...
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The Belles of St. Trinian's
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hoc...
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Miss Robin Hood
In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls finds hi...
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And the Same to You
Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify hi...
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Emergency Call
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood t...
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Where the Bullets Fly
In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy fr...
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Will Any Gentleman...?
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without ...
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Park Plaza 605
Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but for...
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The Extra Day
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various perf...
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John and Julie
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth....
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Three Hats for Lisa
French movie pin up Sophie Hardy is Lisa Milan, a gorgeous Continental film star who's just arrived ...
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Black Memory
Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the myster...
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What a Carve Up!
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ance...
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What a Whopper
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher wil...
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The Lady Craved Excitement
A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of ...
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Too Many Crooks
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Go...
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Ramsbottom Rides Again
Bill Ramsbottom sells his English pub and drags his family off to Canada where he has inherited a ra...
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Wicked as They Come
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder....
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A Kid for Two Farthings
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above ...
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The Green Helmet
After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Gr...
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The Unforgettable Sid James
A profile of the comedy actor, best known for starring in many films of the Carry On franchise, with...
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Sid James: Comedy Icon
Celebrating the nearly 50-year-long career of one of Britain's most loveable celebrities....
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Carry On Again Christmas
The second of the four Carry On Christmas specials, this one loosely recounts the story of Treasure ...
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A King in New York
A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidenta...
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Aunt Clara
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyh...
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Seriously Seeking Sid
A study of the life and career of the actor Sid James, best known for the long-running Carry On seri...
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The Yellow Balloon
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death....
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It's a Great Day
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera...
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All This, and Christmas Too!
Sid's daughter may be pregnant, but he is more interested in catching a pesky mouse. Things are furt...
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Desert Mice
A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association)...
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Lady Godiva Rides Again
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain proc...
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish
A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods....
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Don't Utter a Note
Two well meaning spinsters' plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedl...
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Escape by Night
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journal...
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Look at Life: Market Place
A look into London's street markets and how they're suffering to compete with supermarkets....
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Talk of a Million
A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer look...
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Next to No Time
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instru...
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The 39 Steps
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a sp...
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Last Holiday
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On hi...
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Vive Torbay
A little travelogue feature presenting Torbay - new resort along the 20 mile stretch of South Devon ...
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Gift Horse
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae a...
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A Yank in Ermine
An American airman inherits an Earldom in England along with the small matter of $3 million on the ...
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We Joined the Navy
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a...
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Tall Headlines
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl....
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Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
An American soldier stationed in England is ready to go on his honeymoon with his new wife when his ...
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The Weak and the Wicked
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence...
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The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...
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Dry Rot
Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race....
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Cosh Boy
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gan...
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Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1
Thirty-five years after his premature death in 1968 Tony Hancock was voted Britain's best-ever comed...
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The Deep Blue Sea
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF ...
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The Shiralee
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him....
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The Man Inside
A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft....
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The Story of Esther Costello
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident that killed her mother. Wealthy ...
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Father's Doing Fine
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give b...
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Interpol
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank...
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The Crowded Day
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store....
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The Small Back Room
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disa...
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Upstairs and Downstairs
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic...
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The Front Page
Earl Williams is due to be hanged tomorrow, and he's innocent. When Earl escapes from his cell, jour...
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Tokoloshe
A young African boy is rescued from a witchdoctor's death curse. He travels to the big city where a ...
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I Believe in You
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950)...
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Look at Life: Dustmen's Day
A day in the life of the British dustman, and an insight into the particular problems of refuse disp...
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Look at Life: Getting a Move On
A look into the science of removals, following a family's move from Suffolk to Edinburgh....
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What a Carry On!
Filmed highlights of the West End stage revue, "Carry On London!", introduced by Shaw Taylor and fea...
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What's a Carry On?
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips a...
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On Location: The Carry Ons
June Whitfield takes a look at some of the locations used during the making of the legendary 'Carry ...
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