George Cole

An irreverent black comedy adapted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat from their play, The Green Man marked the directorial debut of camera operator Robert Day. A scintillating Alastair Sim plays Hawkins, a timid watchmaker with a part time job – he is also a professional assassin who bumps off the people we love to hate. But when the philandering MP Sir Gregory Upshott is the intended target, vacuum cleaner salesman William Blake and Hawkins’ new neighbour Ann Vincent repeatedly get in the way. As the time of the assassination draws ever closer and Hawkins tracks his victim to a dilapidated seaside hotel called the Green Man, the laughs and the tension steadily rise to a brilliant climax. An enormously entertaining farce that ticks all the genre's boxes (mistaken identities, compromising positions, much panicking and slamming of doors).

A bumbling gang of British racketeers devises an ingenious extortion plot against a wealthy businessman.

The St Trinian's girls win a trip to Italy and go on tour.

The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever - they've burned down St. Trinian's! As the school stands trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief. But miraculously the judge's infatuation with Rosalie, the beautiful blonde of the sixth form, means the school is freed. For Authority it means a new reign of terror, as with gleeful anticipation the girls of St. Trinian's regroup.

1955. A Cockney family. (3 sisters, a brother-in-law and a niece) inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family doesn't want to leave London, but one of the male relatives insists and off they go to face the unknown.

A pompous bombshell becomes the unwilling prize in a tug of war among three men when their capsized cruise ship maroons them all on a deserted island.

The unruly schoolgirls of St. Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey.

In 18th-century Europe, a peaceful hamlet is ravaged by a seductive female vampire, who has a thirst for the blood of young women.

The monstrous St Trinian's schoolgirls with their Headmistress, Amber Spottiswood are on the move again. This time to Hamingwell Grange.

Cutting Edge views the end of the Tory era in 1997 through a Home Counties dinner party

In this adaptation of Dickens’s classic novel, a bitter old miser is given a chance at redemption when he is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

The legendary story of Cleopatra and her conquest of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.

Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives. But his will has one last joke - they each have to undertake a task completely out of character within a month. As each sets out on their objective they find that quite apart from the promised riches, they are unexpectedly getting a lot out of the challenge. All except caddish Simon Russell, that is. Released in 1951, Laughter in Paradise was Britain's top-grossing film. Watch carefully and see a young Audrey Hepburn in a bit part as a cigarette girl. Featuring Alastair Sim. Available in HD in North America.

Amanda reports for babysitting duty at the Lloyd house where the boy’s biological father soon arrives after escaping a nearby psychiatric institution.