John Laurie Movies

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the...

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing. When it's finished it arrives on the...

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking...

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary...

A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand.

An amateur detective investigates a string of acid bath murders while on holiday.

Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack...

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...

When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during WWII, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe and Marine Michael Dugan find themselves stranded...

Dramatised account of the achievements of Glasgow's William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.

Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.

Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contributions from colleagues.

A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after...

Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'Anthony and Cleopatra' with Glenda Jackson, 'Monty...

"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in...

Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his...

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of...

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...