List of the best Alfie Bass movies: The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins(1971), The Bespoke Overcoat(1956), The Lavender Hill Mob(1951), The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck(1967), Man on the Run(1949), The Hasty Heart(1949), A Tale of Two Cities(1958), Svengali(1955), It Always Rains on Sunday(1947), Alfie(1966), A Touch of the Sun(1958), A Kid for Two Farthings(1956) ... ...
Comedy
UK
1971
107 Minutes
Alfie Bass Sheila Bernette Ian Carmichael Harry H. Corbett Julie Ege Bruce Forsyth Ronald Fraser Roy Hudd Cheryl Kennedy Stephen Lewis Spike Milligan
This early Seventies British comedy takes us through seven short stories based on the Seven Deadly Sins. This film is a montage of different styles, from Spike Milligan's mainly silent "... See full summary »
Fantasy, Drama
1956
33 Minutes
Alfie Bass David Kossoff Alan Tilvern Man Mountain Dean
A man's only desire is to have an overcoat, but before he can get one, he dies of hypothermia; so he returns as a ghost and demands that his friend steal him one.
Comedy
UK
1951
78 Minutes
Shorty
Alec Guinness Stanley Holloway Sidney James Alfie Bass Marjorie Fielding John Gregson Edie Martin Clive Morton Ronald Adam Sydney Tafler Meredith Edwards
bank robbers police officer schoolgirl artist inspector petty criminal witty cheeky charming london paris bank robbery scams adventure pursuit underdog 1950s
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
Horror
1967
107 Minutes
Shagal, the Inn-Keeper
Jack MacGowran Roman Polanski Sharon Tate Jessie Robins Alfie Bass Ferdinand Mayne Iain Quarrier Terry Downes Fiona Lewis Ronald Lacey Sydney Bromley
vampire professor assistant innkeeper daughter hunchback cheeky playful transylvania inn castle vampires abduction mishaps romance discovery rescue unknown era
A professor (Jack MacGowran) and his helper (Roman Polanski) crash a vampire ball at the castle of Count Von Krolock.
Crime, Drama
1949
82 Minutes
Bert the Barge Mate
Derek Farr Joan Hopkins Edward Chapman Laurence Harvey Alfie Bass John Bailey John Stuart Edward Underdown
sergeant deserter war widow woman inspector innocent man engaging suspenseful uneasy england pawn shop london pub desertion awol postwar britain robbery murder false accusations underdog
An Army deserter moves from town to town looking for peace and quiet, only to become involved in more trouble.
Drama
UK
1949
99 Minutes
Orderly
Ronald Reagan Patricia Neal Richard Todd Anthony Nicholls Howard Marion-Crawford Ralph Michael John Sherman Alfie Bass Orlando Martins
nurse scottish person soldier doctor patient touching uplifting melodramatic military hospital burma death world war ii terminal illness military acceptance transformation discovery 1940s
In the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
Drama, History
UK
1958
117 Minutes
Jerry Cruncher
Dirk Bogarde Dorothy Tutin Cecil Parker Stephen Murray Athene Seyler Paul Guers Marie Versini Ian Bannen Alfie Bass Ernest Clark Rosalie Crutchley
aristocrat soldier duchess marquis doctor attorney chilling melodramatic france paris french revolution poverty power struggle french history redemption forbidden love fall wretched excess sacrifice 1790s
During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, who's hiding his true identity and purpose.
Drama
UK
1955
82 Minutes
Carrell
Hildegarde Neff Donald Wolfit Terence Morgan Derek Bond Paul Rogers David Kossoff Hubert Gregg Noel Purcell Alfie Bass Harry Secombe Peter Illing
hypnotist opera singer creepy campy frightful striking opera house hypnosis opera mind control escape transformation 1950s
The story of a genius who hypnotizes an artist's model into becoming a great concert singer, and how she escapes from his influence only by his death.
Crime, Drama
UK
1947
92 Minutes
Dicey Perkins
Googie Withers John McCallum Jack Warner Edward Chapman Jimmy Hanley John Carol John Slater Susan Shaw Sydney Tafler Alfie Bass Betty Ann Davies
criminal escaped convict woman neighbor police officer old flame dark melodramatic engaging london prison bomb shelter backyard crime hiding relationships family prison break friendship escape
An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1966
114 Minutes
Harry
Michael Caine Shelley Winters Millicent Martin Julia Foster Jane Asher Shirley Anne Field Vivien Merchant Eleanor Bron Denholm Elliott Alfie Bass Graham Stark
ladies' man girlfriend friend quirky witty london car sex infidelity pregnancy illness romance growing up transformation 1950s
An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.
Comedy
1958
80 Minutes
May
Ruby Murray Dennis Price Dorothy Bromiley Katherine Kath Gordon Harker Reginald Beckwith Pierre Dudan Colin Gordon Richard Wattis Alfie Bass Naomi Chance
Fantasy
UK
1956
91 Minutes
Celia Johnson Diana Dors David Kossoff Joe Robinson Jonathan Ashmore Brenda De Banzie Vera Day Primo Carnera Sydney Tafler Sidney James Daphne Anderson
son mother tailor goat charming touching spirited london childhood mother/child relationship poverty wishes animals growing up discovery underdog 1950s
In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor ... See full summary »
Adventure
UK
1968
96 Minutes
Barrie Ingham James Hayter Leon Greene Peter Blythe Gay Hamilton Jenny Till John Arnatt Eric Flynn John Gugolka Reg Lye William Squire
robin hood mercenary dictator follower friend amusing cheeky suspenseful gripping nottingham, england forest robin hood dictatorship saving the day power discovery quest pursuit middle ages
Robin, a young Norman nobleman, is falsely accused by his cousin of murdering another cousin. His accuser is actually in league with the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham to seize control of ... See full summary »
Drama, War
1959
101 Minutes
John Mills Cecil Parker M.E. Clifton-James Patrick Allen Patrick Holt Leslie Phillips Michael Hordern Marius Goring Barbara Hicks Duncan Lamont Anthony Sagar
gen. bernard montgomery actor colonel soldier governor german troops charming fascinating positive gripping africa gibraltar london heroism war deception world war ii adventure escape transformation
British intelligence officers (John Mills, Cecil Parker) plan to trick the Nazis by having an officer/actor (M.E. Clifton-James) pose as Gen. Montgomery.
Drama
UK
1952
88 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Jack Hawkins Anthony Steel Ram Gopal Jeremy Spenser Tom Macauley Helen Goss Sonja Hana Andy Ho Peter Asher Shaym Bahadur
plantation owner wife terrorist neighbor son suspenseful thrilling gory intense profound rubber plantation british malaya danger extortion murder rubber business adventure rivalry pursuit escape
During the 1950s, in British-controlled Malaya, rubber-tree planters face many difficulties and dangers, including bandit attacks and nationalist guerrilla ambushes.