J.O.C. Orton

Birth : , London, England, UK

Movies

For Those in Peril
Screenplay
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.
Time Flies
Writer
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
Bon Voyage
Screenplay
A young, Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from Nazi-occupied territory. They are particularly interested in one person who may or may not have been a German agent.
Back-Room Boy
Screenplay
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
Back-Room Boy
Original Story
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
Cottage to Let
Screenplay
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Writer
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
The Ghost Train
Writer
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
Writer
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
Where's That Fire
Writer
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
Oh, Mr. Porter!
Screenplay
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
Non-Stop New York
Screenplay
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
Jack of All Trades
Screenplay
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
Everything Is Thunder
Writer
The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.
Bulldog Jack
Screenplay
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.
Just Smith
Writer
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
After the Ball
Adaptation
The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a handsome young courier.
The Bad Companions
Director
A comedy film directed by J. O. C. Orton.
Bill and Coo
Screenplay
'Strong man dreams of bungalow honeymoon with revue star.' (British Film Catalogue)
Bill and Coo
Director
'Strong man dreams of bungalow honeymoon with revue star.' (British Film Catalogue)
Creeping Shadows
Writer
Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.
The Windjammer
Editor
Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn.
The Windjammer
Writer
Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn.
The Windjammer
Director
Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn.
The Celestial City
Writer
A British silent crime film directed by J. O. C. Orton
The Celestial City
Director
A British silent crime film directed by J. O. C. Orton
Cut It Out
Writer
An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.
Cut It Out
An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.