Mervyn Johns Movies

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."

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 of the...

Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 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...

A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.

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

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

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".