Mervyn Johns Movies

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

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...

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

A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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".

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...

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

Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to misunderstanding with his firm and his fiancee.

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...