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Sidney James has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s.
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Fiasco in Milan
1959
Comedy

The Sucker
1965
Comedy · Crime

Up and Down
1959
Comedy

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
1956
Comedy · Romance

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
1965
Comedy

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
1964
Comedy

The Little Bather
1968
Comedy

Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969
Comedy · Western

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 recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
Dir. Charlie Chaplin · With Charlie Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde

Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Julius Caesar.
Dir. Gerald Thomas · With Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor

Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea, so when they decide to take them on a holiday to Paradise Camp, they think they're off to a nudist colony—but they couldn't be more wrong, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine.
Dir. Gerald Thomas · With Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Dir. Val Guest · With Brian Donlevy, John Longden, William Franklyn

A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
Dir. Carol Reed · With Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida
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