Movies: Sid James

Paper Orchid is a 1949 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker, with a script written by Val Guest. It featured Hugh Williams, Hy Hazell and Garry Marsh. It is perhaps most notable for an early film appearance of Sid James, later to find succes...

The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth....

Sid's daughter may be pregnant, but he is more interested in catching a pesky mouse. Things are further complicated by visits from an assortment of strange neighbours and relatives....

Bill Ramsbottom sells his English pub and drags his family off to Canada where he has inherited a ranch from his grandfather Wild Bill Ramsbottom. He ends up tangling with outlaw Black Jake, an Indian chief Blue Eagle, and the local law....

Celebrating the nearly 50-year-long career of one of Britain's most loveable celebrities....

A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over ...

A young African boy is rescued from a witchdoctor's death curse. He travels to the big city where a blind white man becomes his protector....

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery...

A man on the run from a gang of criminals makes a series of increasingly panicked calls from a phone booth....

A look into London's street markets and how they're suffering to compete with supermarkets....

Sid James learns of the joys of owning a budgerigar....

A look into the science of removals, following a family's move from Suffolk to Edinburgh....

A day in the life of the British dustman, and an insight into the particular problems of refuse disposal....