Mervyn Johns Movies

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

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

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

Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the...

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, a Czech soldier who needs...

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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 insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. William Fitch is on the list, and co-opts his buddy Claude Babbington...

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