 Sim made no films in the decade between 1961 and 1971; it is not clear whether this was, as Brooke suggests, because he found the scripts offered to him unacceptable or, as Simpson proposes, because film makers in the 1960s thought him unsuited to the kitchen sink dramas then fashionable.After Bridie's death in 1951, Sim appeared in only two stage productions during the rest of the decade.The first was a revival of Bridie's "Mr Bolfry" in 1956, in which Sim moved from the role of the puritanical clergyman to that of the Devil.