Mervyn Johns

Also known as 'The Confessional', another of Pete Walkers's critiques of institutional hypocrisy, in which a troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.

Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gould directs such outstanding British actors as Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Mervyn Johns, and, in only his second film, Bob Hoskins. The renowned Carl Davis composed the score.

Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gould directs such outstanding British actors as Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Mervyn Johns, and, in only his second film, Bob Hoskins. The renowned Carl Davis composed the score.

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

1942년 2차 대전이 한창 진행되던 무렵 독일은 원자탄 제조계획을 세우고 원자폭탄의 필수 재료인 중수를 생산했던 노르웨이가 독일군에 점령당하게 된다. 원자탄 제조에 필요한 중수공장을 노르웨이의 산간지역에 세우게 되고 이에 연합군은 큰 위기를 맞게 된다. 독일군의 원자폭탄 제조를 막고자 연합군은 노르웨이 중수 공장을 폭격기로 계획을 세우지만 험난한 지형 때문에 공습이 쉽지 않다. 영국 정보부는 공장의 파괴공작을 세우고 우선 특수요원을 침투시켜가 공장 폭파에 필요한 정보를 수집하게 한다. 결국 오슬로 대학 교수 롤프와 저항 조직원 크누트를 비롯한 노르웨이 출신 특공대원을 급파하여 레지스탕스와 접촉하고, 이들의 도움으로 공장으로 침투하여 공장 내를 살피고 영국군 특공대가 도착하길 기다린다. 이윽고 영국군 특공대가 도착하고, 이들은 폭탄을 장치 중 독일군에게 발각되어 치열한 총격전을 벌인다. 결국 공장은 폭파되고 독일군의 중수생산은 무위로 돌아간다. 그러나 기쁨도 잠시 독일군은 베를린 연구소에서 중수를 다시 가져오고 경계를 더욱 더 철저히 하는데...

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 least have a good laugh.

An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.

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

1900년 여름 열강들의 북경 열강들의 자리 다툼이 한창인 가운데 가뭄으로 인한 민심은 더욱 흉흉해 진다. 중국인의 18명 중 13성이 외국인들에 의해 점령당하자 이를 저지하기 위한 의화단의 폭동이 기승을 부리는 가운데 외국인 거주지역 1천여 명의 거주자들은 긴급 대피를 서두른다. 북경에 도착한 미 해병대의 루이스 소령(Major Matt Lewis : 찰톤 헤스톤 분)은 호텔에서 묘한 매력을 풍기는 나타샤(Baroness Natalie Ivanoff : 에바 가드너 분)에게 호감을 느끼지만 주위의 시선이 따가움을 느낀다. 러시아 사령관의 부인이었던 그녀는 중국 장교인 영록과 염문을 뿌려 남편을 자살하게 만든 과거가 있었던 것. 열강 12개국 대표자들은 연합군이 4백명 뿐인 것을 우려, 떠날 것을 의결하지만 영국 대표는 시드니 장군이 도착할 때 까지 북경에 남을 것을 고집한다. 결국 이들은 북경 사수를 결정, 임전 태세를 갖춘다. 한편 서태후의 황실에서 의화단을 비호하는 단군왕과 정부군을 지휘하는 영 장군 사이에 묘한 갈등이 대두되는데. 의화단의 활동에 대해 공식적인 입장을 표명하지 않았던 서태후는 이를 공식화 하면서 영록에게 시드니의 상륙을 막을 것을 명령한다. 시드니는 정부군의 반격으로 천진으로 후퇴, 북경에 고립된 열강 대표들은 점점 위험에 빠진다. 결국 시드니가 북경에 도착, 의화단에 맞서 싸울 때까지 55일간의 서사적 로맨스가 펼쳐진다.

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

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.

Barbara is the long-lost sister of no-good Mike Roscoe (Ronald Hines). Paula Brown (Maureen Connell) is the stripper whom Mike hires to pose as Barbara. It's all part of a scheme to fool Mike's ex-convict dad Sam Roscoe (Mervyn Johns). The son hopes to entice Sam into revealing the whereabouts of his stolen money, and Paula is hopefully going to do the trick. Based on a novel by Jonathan Burke, Echo of Barbara is a better-than-usual British programmer, entertaining despite its surplus of unpleasant leading characters.

Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.

In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.

John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.

The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with his childishness, but the last straw is drawn when he begins an affair with a young pianist.

In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.

About to enter a marriage he wants no part of, rich nobleman Mitchell takes up with gypsy Mecouri. They marry, but she soon discovers he's deeply in debt. (TCM)

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

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

When Dr Howard Latimer finds the German Actress that he has just met at London Airport murdered in his flat, it leads him into the world of murder, blackmail and a fake passport scam.

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 knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside.

The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.

During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.

바다에 희망을 걸고 사는 이스마엘(Ishmael, Narrator : 리차드 바세하트 분)과 퀴퀘그(Queequeg : 프레데릭 리더버 분)는 우연히 만나서 포경선인 피코트호를 타게 된다. 그 배의 선장 에이합(Captain Ahab : 그레고리 펙 분)은 모비 딕이라는 흰고래한테 한쪽 다리를 잃고 백경 필살을 맹세하면서 복수의 항해를 선포한다. 인도양에서 만난 엔다비호, 고래잡이 배인 레이철호 등을 만나면서 자신의 결심을 더욱 굳힌다. 심한 파도를 만나자 갑판장 버크(Starbuck : 레오 겐 분)가 심하게 반대하고 마스트의 줄을 끓어버리는 순간 마스트 끝에서 푸른빛이 번쩍인다. 이 우연한 공전현상을 흰고래가 나타난 징조라고 선원들을 안심시킨 에이합 선장은 마침내 모비딕이 나타나자 운명의 결전을 맞이한다.

Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio boss's daughter after which he quickly rises through the studio ranks. Then the letters begin to appear from a lovesick American actress who wants to know why he has thrown her over.

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

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 indoctrination at the hands of his captors, and accepts a post as an instructor at the Outward Bound Sea School.

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.

An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

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

사진관 조수인 윌리는 사진과 영화에 대한 열정으로 가득하다. 욕심 많은 주인 밑에서 몰래 사진 작업을 하던 윌리는 헬레나오 만나게 된다. 헬레나와 결혼한 윌리는 직접 사진관을 운영하게 된다. 하지만 사실, 윌리의 관심은 오직 활동 사진의 발명 뿐이었다. 결국 가장으로서도 사업가로서도 실패한 윌리는 자기 연구실에서 묻혀 지낸다. 경제적으로도 파산하고 아내 헬레나는 병에 걸려 죽어가지만 윌리는 활동사진의 발명에만 몰두한다.

자린고비 구두쇠인 주인공 스크루지(에베니저 스크루지 Ebenezer Scrooge)는 자린고비로 인정이라곤 손톱 끝만치도 없는 수전노이다. 그런 그가 크리스마스 전날 밤에 본래 공동으로 사업을 하던 동업자의 유령을 만나 자기의 과거·현재·미래의 모습을 보게 되자 자신의 죄를 뉘우치고 사람다운 마음을 찾게 된다는 이야기이다.

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 their young son Tony.

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".

Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

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 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 coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins

An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned germ warfare.

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.

A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).

별장 대축을 의뢰받은 건축가가 별장에서 사람들을 만나고 5개의 에피소드를 듣으면서 이상한 느낌에 싸인다. 전에 자신이 이곳에 왔었다는 생각을 갖게 되는데, 이런 것을 꿈이나 무의식적 경험에 의한 대자비 현상이라고 한다. 이런 현실과 환상, 혼령이 살아나고 인형이 살아나는 아주 독특한 공포적 초현실적인 이야기를 담고 있다.

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 in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?

British drama documentary from 1943, 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 Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.

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 quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.

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.

Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.

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

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.

조스가 운영하는 자마이카 여인숙은 지나가는 배를 난파시켜 생존자들을 살해하고 물건들을 약탈하는 해적들의 근거지이다. 메리는 이모를 찾아 아일랜드를 떠나 자마이카 여인숙으로 오는 도중 험프리 경내에 머물게 된다. 메리는 자마이카 여인숙으로 갈 말을 빌려달라고 하나 험프리 경은 그녀에게 그곳에 가지 말라고 경고한다. 히치콕 감독이 미국으로 가기 전 영국에서 만든 마지막 작품으로 그의 최악의 영화로 알려졌으나 개봉당시 박스 오피스 히트작이었다.

Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having his henchmen sabotage their trucks.

브루노 프랭크(Bruno Frank)의 희곡을 원작으로 한 로맨틱 코미디.

A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.

A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.

An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means - fair or foul!

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 misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.

Walls plays an Englishman who's assigned the task of transporting a Queen(Yvonne Arnaud) of a revolution-torn country to England incognito. Hiding her in his London apartment, then his country house gives rise to many misunderstandings among his employees, friends and his Fianceé.