Cast: Charles Hawtrey

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Eric Portman · Sheila Sim · Dennis Price · John Sweet

Synopsis Three people arrive in a village in Southern England in the early years of World War II. Alison Smith is a London girl who is due to start working on a farm as a 'Land Girl'. Peter Gibbs is an...

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Sid James · Kenneth Williams · Kenneth Connor · Charles Hawtrey

Synopsis Two Britons are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. Hengist Pod creates useless inventions, while Horsa is a brave and cunning fighter. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter,...

Direction Ronnie Baxter

Cast Sid James · Terry Scott · Charles Hawtrey · Hattie Jacques

Synopsis Ebenezer Scrooge is a misery on Christmas, not allowing people money or doing anything to share Christmas cheer around his employees or acquaintances. While Scrooge is visited by three ghosts we see how his penny pinching has affected those around...

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Sid James · Kenneth Connor · Charles Hawtrey · Joan Sims

Synopsis The Helping Hands agency employs some very strange people to perform some very strange jobs! Even the simplest of tasks get bungled by the incompetent but lovable staff, as they get given jobs ranging from taking animals for walks (no...

Direction Fred Paul

Cast Johnston Forbes-Robertson · Irene Vanbrugh · Henry S. Irving · Gerald du Maurier

Synopsis An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.

Direction John Eldridge

Cast James Donald · Kenneth More · Jean Lodge · Frederick Piper

Synopsis Bill Harper and Petronilla Brand are a young couple that, through a series of mishaps and accidents, get unintentionally involved in a brandy-smuggling (from France) racket. Because of an accidental sinking of Tony Rackham's boat, Bill and Patricia take him...

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Shirley Eaton · Kenneth Connor · Charles Hawtrey · Hattie Jacques

Synopsis Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her....

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Ted Ray · Jean Kent · Leslie Phillips · Joan Sims

Synopsis The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population. They begin to see themselves...

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Sid James · Kenneth Williams · Jim Dale · Charles Hawtrey

Synopsis The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy. When word gets to England, two noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy take it upon themselves to aid there French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a...

Direction Terry Bishop

Cast Duncan Macrae · Joseph Tomelty · Patrick Barr · Charles Hawtrey

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Peter Reynolds · Leslie Dwyer · Edward Lewy · Kynaston Reeves

Synopsis A bizarre attempt at a humorous murder mystery. A fat rich man snoozing on a balcony is bludgeoned to death while the Smart Alec of the title has one of the dumbest alibis ever. Antics from Kynaston Reeves and young...

Direction Montgomery Tully

Cast Simon Oates · Zena Marshall · Charles Hawtrey · Patricia Hayes

Synopsis Residents of a radio telescope laboratory are kidknapped when they answer a mysterious signal from outer space. They are taken to a satelite inhabited only by robots, where they are presented with a series of intelligence tests. Since this is...

Direction Gilbert Gunn

Cast Adam Faith · Sid James · Carole Lesley · Terence Longdon

Synopsis A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake...

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Sid James · Eric Barker · Kenneth Connor · Charles Hawtrey

Synopsis With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get...

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Sid James · Kenneth Williams · Charles Hawtrey · Joan Sims

Synopsis Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea. The boys suggest a camping holiday, secretly intending to take them to a nudist camp. Of course they end up in the wrong place, and...

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast Will Hay · Moore Marriott · Graham Moffatt · Eric Clavering

Synopsis A hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London.

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Harry H. Corbett · Kenneth Williams · Jim Dale · Charles Hawtrey

Synopsis The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for Dr Watt, Detective-Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue!...

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Sid James · Kenneth Williams · Charles Hawtrey · Joan Sims

Synopsis A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful. And there is something strange about...

Direction Henry Cornelius

Cast Basil Radford · Jimmy Hanley · Janette Scott · A.E. Matthews

Synopsis A syndicate is set up by a horse lover to buy a particular racehorse, but they accidentally buy the wrong horse. The horse is useless on the flat, so they decide to enter him as a jumper.

Direction Montgomery Tully

Cast Bernard Bresslaw · Michael Medwin · Alfie Bass · Geoffrey Sumner

Synopsis A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at landing one of the harshest territories is compensated when they...