Movies: Mervyn Johns

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

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 least have a good laugh....

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 coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing b...

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, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on th...

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

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 knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside....

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

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

Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills....

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 from meeting a grisly end....

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

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 problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking fo...

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger...

A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court....

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 indoctrination at the hands of his captors, and accepts a post as an instructor at the Outward Bound S...

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 germ warfare....

When a pharmacist accidentally prescribes poison instead of painkillers, the race is on to find the killer pills....

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

An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!...

Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to ...