Mervyn Johns Movies

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

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gregory Peck

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Leslie Banks

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Laughton

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Alastair Sim

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

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mervyn Johns

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Poston

John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Richard Todd

Barbara is the long-lost sister of no-good Mike Roscoe (Ronald Hines). Paula Brown (Maureen Connell) is the stripper whom Mike hires to pose as...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mervyn Johns

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Walter Fitzgerald

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Redgrave

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".

Genre: Western

Cast: David Farrar

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Harvey

Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Basehart

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Mervyn Johns

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Zachary Scott

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Warner

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Bradford Dillman

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...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mervyn Johns

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 him...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

When a pharmacist accidentally prescribes poison instead of painkillers, the race is on to find the killer pills.

Genre:

Cast: Philip Friend

An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Robert Beatty

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carol Marsh

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,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lynn Redgrave

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Finch

A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Melina Mercouri

The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with his childishness, but the last straw is drawn...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yul Brynner

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

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Gordon Harker

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tommy Trinder

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mervyn Johns

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stewart Granger

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Bloom

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer...

Genre: History

Cast: Charlton Heston

A little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when a coveted contralto role in the "Messiah" is given to Mrs. Davies instead of Mrs. Lloyd....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mervyn Johns

A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Lynn

The free-spirited wife of a proper British doctor leaves him after an arguement over the anatomically correct drawing of a horse on the wall drawn by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cecil Parker

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vivien Leigh

Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julian Vedey

In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Deborah Kerr

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Denison

A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communist hands, his mind confused by brain-washing and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kieron Moore

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...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Howard Keel

A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Walls

Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to misunderstanding with his firm and his fiancee.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Walls

Also known as 'The Confessional', another of Pete Walkers's critiques of institutional hypocrisy, in which a troubled young girl goes to confession...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Anthony Sharp

An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leo McKern

An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clive Brook

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,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lynn Redgrave

Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

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

Cast: Errol Flynn

An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Walls

Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mervyn Johns

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

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Edmond O'Brien

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Kirk Douglas

The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Arliss

During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald Houston

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister...

Genre: War

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

Genre: Drama

Cast: W. Somerset Maugham

When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport murdered in his flat, he is led into a world of murder,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Mills

An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Beatty

A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Donald Houston

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

Genre: War

Cast: Clifford Evans

Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Hancock

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

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mary Merrall

Genre: Drama

Cast: Allan Jeayes