Mervyn Johns Movies

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

Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk...

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness...

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

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

Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio...

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

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...

In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his...

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

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

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....

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

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

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...

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".

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 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.