Mervyn Johns Movies

Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of...

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 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...

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

John Cummings, an unsuccessful London cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by a hood in the employ of Lionel Meadows, sadistic organiser...

When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport murdered in his flat, he is led into a world of murder,...

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

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

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,...

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....

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Barbara is the long-lost sister of no-good Mike Roscoe. Paula Brown is the stripper whom Mike hires to pose as Barbara. It's all part of a scheme to...