Mervyn Johns Movies

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.

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...

In Victorian Brighton, a scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband....

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

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.

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...

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