John Laurie Movies

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.

Edward Potter, a meek clerk at Scotland Yard hunts down an escaped criminal.

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

An amateur detective investigates a string of acid bath murders while on holiday.

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.

A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.

Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contributions from colleagues.

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...

Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and...

King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. Following the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the...

A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after...

Rich bachelor B.G. Bruno, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of...

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary...

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their...

Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his...

Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.

Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing. When it's finished it arrives on the...