Word: alastair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...below the best British film versions of Dickens (Great Expectations, Oliver Twist), the picture at times may tax a moviegoer's seasonal good will. Though Dickens' frank sentimentality calls for broad treatment, Brian Desmond Hurst's direction is too often heavy as well. Able Character Actor Alastair Sim is the dependable old brandy that gives this plum pudding a lift...
...Philadelphia, Alastair Martin over William Linglebach, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2, for Martin's third national amateur court tennis title...
...Happiest Days of Your Life. A hilarious scene-stealing duel between Britain's Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford (TIME...
Margaret Rutherford is thoroughly convincing as the bulldozing, bustling headmistress, who labels the situation "an ascending spiral of iniquity." Alastair Sim is equally good as the distracted headmaster faced with invasion, whose favorite position is a tragic out-the-window gaze...
...Happiest Days of Your Life. A hilarious scene-stealing duel between Britain's Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford (TIME...