Search results for "Mervyn Johns"
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 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
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
Scrooge

Scrooge

Scrooge
IMDb: 8.1
86

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
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.

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
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”.

San Demetrio London

San Demetrio London

San Demetrio London
IMDb: 6.7
97

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 set afire in the middle…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
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 Captive Heart

The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart
IMDb: 7
104

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier…

Genre: Drama, War
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, Thriller
Dead of Night

Dead of Night

Dead of Night
IMDb: 7.5
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…

Genre: Horror, Thriller
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, Crime
The Halfway House

The Halfway House

The Halfway House
IMDb: 6.6
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…

The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down

The Bells Go Down
IMDb: 6.6
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
Went the Day Well?

Went the Day Well?

Went the Day Well?
IMDb: 7.5
92

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
The Next of Kin

The Next of Kin

The Next of Kin
IMDb: 6.8
102

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 this…

Saloon Bar

Saloon Bar

Saloon Bar
IMDb: 6.9
76

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

Genre: Thriller
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 innkeeper who’s a member of a…