Mervyn Johns Movies

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....

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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".