Search results for "Mervyn Johns"
Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi
IMDb: 6.3
105

The story of a lusty, fighting young adventurer who exchanged his sword for a cross

Genre: Drama, History
No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie

No Love for Johnnie
IMDb: 6.8
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
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
The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down
IMDb: 6.8
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
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.

The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae
IMDb: 6.5
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
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
Pink String and Sealing Wax

Pink String and Sealing Wax

Pink String and Sealing Wax
IMDb: 6.6
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…

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet
IMDb: 6.1
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 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
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.

The National Health

The National Health

The National Health
IMDb: 5.9
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
The Devil’s Disciple

The Devil’s Disciple

The Devil’s Disciple
IMDb: 7.2
82

The Devil’s Disciple is a 1959 film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title. The Anglo-American film was directed by Guy Hamilton who replaced Alexander Mackendrick…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
The Counterfeit Plan

The Counterfeit Plan

The Counterfeit Plan
IMDb: 5.9
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
Edward, My Son

Edward, My Son

Edward, My Son
IMDb: 6.6
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
1984

1984

1984
IMDb: 7
90

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

My Learned Friend

My Learned Friend

My Learned Friend
IMDb: 7.1
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
The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids
IMDb: 6.2
93

A shower of meteorites produces a rare night time spectacle that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as…

Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter
IMDb: 5.6
75

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

San Demetrio London

San Demetrio London

San Demetrio London
IMDb: 6.7
104

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
80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects
IMDb: 5.8
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
The Halfway House

The Halfway House

The Halfway House
IMDb: 6.8
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…

Dead of Night

Dead of Night

Dead of Night
IMDb: 7.7
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…

Scrooge

Scrooge

Scrooge
IMDb: 8.1
86 min

Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) malcontentedly shuffles through life as a barbarous miserly businessman until a fateful Christmas Eve when he is visited by three spirits, delivered show him his miserable…

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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart
IMDb: 7.0
86 min

A succession of tales about the lives and loves of two guys at a Prisoner of War Camp more than five decades. Location shooting at the British occupied portion of…

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Genre: War