 Having originally accepted the part of Clarence, Sim agreed to play in drag as Miss Fritton when Margaret Rutherford proved unavailable, and the director and co-producer, Frank Launder could find no suitable actress as an alternative.His "Burke and Hare" film "The Anatomist" debuted on British TV (on "International Theatre") on Feb. 6, 1956, and was later released theatrically in the U.S. in 1961, leading some reference sources to list it as a 1961 movie.Sim was among the top British film stars of the early- and mid-1950s, but his films of the late 1950s are considered by the critic Michael Brooke to be of lesser quality, because of poor scripts or lack of innovative direction.