Mervyn Johns
Známy pre: Acting
Narodeniny: 1899-02-17
Miesto narodenia: Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Taktiež známy ako: David Mervyn Johns
Moby Dick
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a...
Uvoľnenie : 1956.06.27Popularita : 16.841
Went the Day Well?
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1942.12.07Popularita : 7.095
Jamaica Inn
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1939.05.11Popularita : 12.429
Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show...
Uvoľnenie : 1951.11.28Popularita : 16.317
Dead of Night
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare....
Uvoľnenie : 1945.09.09Popularita : 12.571
The Old Dark House
An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
Uvoľnenie : 1963.10.30Popularita : 6.562
Never Let Go
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic...
Uvoľnenie : 1960.06.02Popularita : 3.481
Echo of Barbara
Barbara is the long-lost sister of no-good Mike Roscoe (Ronald Hines). Paula Brown (Maureen Connell) is the stripper whom Mike hires to pose as...
Uvoľnenie : 1961.04.29Popularita : 1.182
San Demetrio London
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1943.12.07Popularita : 3.401
The Captive Heart
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part...
Uvoľnenie : 1946.04.29Popularita : 4.748
Diamond City
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".
Uvoľnenie : 1949.09.20Popularita : 1.109
Romeo and Juliet
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1954.09.01Popularita : 4.167
Finger of Guilt
Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio...
Uvoľnenie : 1956.06.01Popularita : 4.335
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her...
Uvoľnenie : 1945.11.22Popularita : 2.375
Edward, My Son
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
Uvoľnenie : 1949.03.01Popularita : 5.279
The Counterfeit Plan
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1957.01.01Popularita : 1.06
Easy Money
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1948.01.20Popularita : 6.252
Francis of Assisi
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts...
Uvoľnenie : 1961.07.12Popularita : 2.686
The Halfway House
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1944.02.01Popularita : 6.505
My Learned Friend
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 him...
Uvoľnenie : 1943.10.25Popularita : 1.759
Danger List
When a pharmacist accidentally prescribes poison instead of painkillers, the race is on to find the killer pills.
Uvoľnenie : 1957.12.26Popularita : 1.117
Counterblast
An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned...
Uvoľnenie : 1948.05.18Popularita : 3.279
Helter Skelter
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Uvoľnenie : 1949.01.07Popularita : 3.069
The National Health
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,...
Uvoľnenie : 1973.03.06Popularita : 1.882
No Love for Johnnie
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1961.02.14Popularita : 3.652
The Gypsy and the Gentleman
A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.
Uvoľnenie : 1958.01.15Popularita : 1.903
Once More, with Feeling!
The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with his childishness, but the last straw is drawn...
Uvoľnenie : 1960.02.11Popularita : 1.421
Saloon Bar
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Uvoľnenie : 1940.11.02Popularita : 2.266
The Bells Go Down
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1943.05.16Popularita : 4.724
They Knew Mr. Knight
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing...
Uvoľnenie : 1946.03.05Popularita : 2.861
Captain Boycott
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt....
Uvoľnenie : 1947.08.26Popularita : 5.056
80,000 Suspects
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Uvoľnenie : 1963.08.15Popularita : 1.973
55 Days at Peking
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer...
Uvoľnenie : 1963.05.06Popularita : 10.366
Valley of Song
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....
Uvoľnenie : 1953.06.08Popularita : 0.659
In the Soup
A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.
Uvoľnenie : 1936.04.01Popularita : 1.113
Tony Draws a Horse
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1950.06.01Popularita : 1.78
Storm in a Teacup
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Uvoľnenie : 1937.02.25Popularita : 6.678
Night Ride
Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries...
Uvoľnenie : 1937.06.28Popularita : 1.239
The Sundowners
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to...
Uvoľnenie : 1960.12.08Popularita : 6.413
Tall Headlines
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
Uvoľnenie : 1952.04.15Popularita : 1.325
The Blue Peter
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1955.11.01Popularita : 2.043
The Day of the Triffids
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants...
Uvoľnenie : 1963.04.24Popularita : 11.762
Dishonour Bright
A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.
Uvoľnenie : 1936.09.21Popularita : 1.686
Lady in Danger
Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to misunderstanding with his firm and his fiancee.
Uvoľnenie : 1934.11.27Popularita : 1.359
House of Mortal Sin
Also known as 'The Confessional', another of Pete Walkers's critiques of institutional hypocrisy, in which a troubled young girl goes to confession...
Uvoľnenie : 1976.02.03Popularita : 5.788
A Jolly Bad Fellow
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1964.03.15Popularita : 1.255
Convoy
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Uvoľnenie : 1940.09.28Popularita : 5.398
Girl in the News
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later...
Uvoľnenie : 1940.08.28Popularita : 3.029
The National Health
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,...
Uvoľnenie : 1973.03.06Popularita : 1.882
Doctor at Large
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1957.03.26Popularita : 4.32
The Master of Ballantrae
Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.
Uvoľnenie : 1953.08.05Popularita : 5.557
Foreign Affaires
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!
Uvoľnenie : 1935.11.21Popularita : 0.379
The Next of Kin
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1942.06.15Popularita : 2.888
1984
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Uvoľnenie : 1956.03.06Popularita : 12.516
The Heroes of Telemark
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy...
Uvoľnenie : 1965.11.12Popularita : 18.395
The Guv'nor
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...
Uvoľnenie : 1935.10.01Popularita : 0.783
Find the Lady
During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.
Uvoľnenie : 1956.10.01Popularita : 1.5
The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...
Uvoľnenie : 1952.01.01Popularita : 4.276
The Devil's Disciple
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister...
Uvoľnenie : 1959.08.20Popularita : 4.177
Quartet
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."
Uvoľnenie : 1948.10.26Popularita : 11.832
The Vicious Circle
When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport murdered in his flat, he is led into a world of murder,...
Uvoľnenie : 1957.09.01Popularita : 2.734
The Oracle
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
Uvoľnenie : 1953.06.01Popularita : 1.348
The Surgeon's Knife
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
Uvoľnenie : 1957.10.01Popularita : 0.845
The Foreman Went to France
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
Uvoľnenie : 1942.06.22Popularita : 4.383
The Rebel
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work....
Uvoľnenie : 1961.03.07Popularita : 4.809
Who Killed the Cat?
A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
Uvoľnenie : 1966.10.07Popularita : 1.934