Mervyn Johns Movies

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...

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."

Russia's Space Race success is mainly due to a brilliant rocket scientist, Kuprin. But a journalist and a politician in London remember him as a...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

An insurance investigator tracks a series of robberies to a gang who are hiding the stolen jewels in the produce of a bakery.

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

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...

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

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".

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...

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

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...

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