Mervyn Johns Movies

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...

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

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

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

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her...

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

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

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,...

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

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...

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

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.

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 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...

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...

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...

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".

Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to misunderstanding with his firm and his fiancee.