Mervyn Johns

Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of ...

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

Guests at an English estate recall nightmares.

In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.

Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce heavy water needed for making atomic bombs during World War II.

In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.

The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.

In England, an American car salesman ends-up spending a stormy night at the mysterious and deadly mansion of a client's family.

A group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. The inn-keeper seems a little mysterious...

Tony Hancock gives up his day job to become an artist. He's a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics dislike his work. Nevertheless, he impresses a talented artist.

In 1940, a concentration camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.

In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.

A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable.

Rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned.

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 under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.

The British National Health System is skewered in this comedy set in a rundown London hospital. The hospital is filled with wacky staff members and patients, and the film strives to get all it can from their humorous escapades. Th...