Mervyn Johns Movies

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

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...

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

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

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...

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...

The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of...

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...

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

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...

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".

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,...

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 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...

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 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...

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

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

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