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Alfie Bass has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1970s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Brief Encounter.
The Bellboy
1960
Comedy
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Dir. David Lean · With Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Dir. Charles Crichton · With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Dir. Lewis Gilbert · With Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
Dir. Richard Lester · With Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Phil Silvers
