Mervyn Johns Movies

A television producer encounters personal problems while making a documentary about the philosopher Wittgenstein.

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first...

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...

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".

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

In 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Captain Charles Boycott band together to assert their rights,...

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

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...

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. William Fitch is on the list, and co-opts his buddy Claude Babbington...

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...

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....

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...

Smith and Laye-Parker meet Kuprin and find he is less anxious to leave Russia than they supposed.

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

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...

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

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

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

Barbara is the long-lost sister of no-good Mike Roscoe. Paula Brown is the stripper whom Mike hires to pose as Barbara. It's all part of a scheme to...

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...