Search results for "Mervyn Johns"
Who Killed the Cat?

Who Killed the Cat?

Who Killed the Cat?
IMDb: 6.7
76

A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.

Genre: Mystery
Tall Headlines

Tall Headlines

Tall Headlines
IMDb: 5.8
100

A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.

Genre: Drama
Saloon Bar

Saloon Bar

Saloon Bar
IMDb: 6.8
76

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

Genre: Thriller
Diamond City

Diamond City

Diamond City
IMDb: 5.8
90

Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the “Wild South”.

Scrooge

Scrooge

Scrooge
IMDb: 8.1
86

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel miserly businessman until one fateful Christmas Eve when he is visited by three spirits, sent show him how his unhappy childhood…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart
IMDb: 7
104

A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany…

Genre: Drama, War
Dead of Night

Dead of Night

Dead of Night
IMDb: 7.6
103

Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that…

The Halfway House

The Halfway House

The Halfway House
IMDb: 6.7
95

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as…

Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn
IMDb: 6.3
108

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who’s come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she’s married an inkeeper who’s a member of a…

The Heroes of Telemark

The Heroes of Telemark

The Heroes of Telemark
IMDb: 6.5
131

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.

Genre: Action, War
Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter
IMDb: 5.3
75

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can’t seem to stop hiccuping.

The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids
IMDb: 6.1
93

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people…

My Learned Friend

My Learned Friend

My Learned Friend
IMDb: 7
74

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop…

Genre: Comedy, Thriller
1984

1984

1984
IMDb: 6.9
90

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Edward, My Son

Edward, My Son

Edward, My Son
IMDb: 6.5
112

Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.

Genre: Drama
The Counterfeit Plan

The Counterfeit Plan

The Counterfeit Plan
IMDb: 6
80

An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger’s daughter who knew nothing of his past, to…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Devil’s Disciple

The Devil’s Disciple

The Devil’s Disciple
IMDb: 7
82

In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
The National Health

The National Health

The National Health
IMDb: 6.1
98

Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that’s as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling…

Genre: Comedy
Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Moby Dick
IMDb: 7.3
116

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service abroad the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Pink String and Sealing Wax

Pink String and Sealing Wax

Pink String and Sealing Wax
IMDb: 6.7
89

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae
IMDb: 6.4
90

Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.

Genre: Adventure
The Next of Kin

The Next of Kin

The Next of Kin
IMDb: 6.8
102

Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning “Be like Dad, Keep Mum”. A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.

No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie
IMDb: 6.9
110

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he’s feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him….

Genre: Drama
The Old Dark House

The Old Dark House

The Old Dark House
IMDb: 5.4
86

An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.

Captain Boycott

Captain Boycott

Captain Boycott
IMDb: 6.5
93

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic…

Genre: Drama, History
Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet
IMDb: 6
141

In Shakespeare’s classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down
IMDb: 6.7
89

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz…

Genre: Drama, War
Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi
IMDb: 6.3
105

In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned…

Genre: Drama, History
San Demetrio London

San Demetrio London

San Demetrio London
IMDb: 6.7
97

British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The Vicious Circle

The Vicious Circle

The Vicious Circle
IMDb: 6.6
84

When Dr Howard Latimer finds the German Actress that he has just met at London Airport murdered in his flat, it leads him into the world of murder, blackmail and…

80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects
IMDb: 6
113

A doctor’s already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

Genre: Drama
Went the Day Well?

Went the Day Well?

Went the Day Well?
IMDb: 7.5
88

The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England’s radar network in preparation for a full scale…

Genre: Thriller, War