Mervyn Johns Movie Rankings
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3.2042
On seeing Eliot Foley's house, Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) pauses querulously. Meeting the assembled guests, he falls into numbed silence. Although Craig has never visited Foley (Roland Culver), the experience is eerily familiar. ... more about Dead of Night
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3.1709
Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and of three spirits in this faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic. ... more about Scrooge
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2.8591
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. ... more about Sundowners
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2.7760
A shower of meteorites produces a glow that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the population go blind. ... more about Day of the Triffids
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2.6951
An American who sells cars in England receives a mysterious invitation from an old, excentric millionaire to visit his house in which he lives with his twin brother. ... more about Old Dark House
Not Available on DVD
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2.5707
Set in Cornwall where the young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are the landlords of the Jamaica Inn. ... more about Jamaica Inn
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2.5486
This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab to stomp the boards of his ship on a peg leg. ... more about Moby Dick
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2.2655
Buckle on your swashes for this swashbuckling adventure with a highlander who fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie who, after various escapades, becomes a pirate. ... more about Master of Ballantrae
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2.2077
Dr. Sparrow graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and a quack specializing in rich neurotic women. ... more about Doctor at Large
Not Available on DVD
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2.1825
This film was not known as "Devil's Plot" until 1953, when distributor Herbert Bregstein acquired the USA theatre rights and changed the title from "Counterblast" to "Devil's Plot. ... more about Counterblast
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2.1415
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. ... more about My Learned Friend
Not Available on DVD
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2.1369
After the evacuation at Dunkirk, June 1940, some thousands of British prisoners are sent to German P.O.W. camps. One such group includes "Capt. Geoffrey Mitchell," a concentration-camp escapee who assumed the identity of a dead British officer. ... more about Captive Heart
Not Available on DVD
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2.1186
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. ... more about Foreman Went to France
Not Available on DVD
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2.0973
The residents of a British village during WWII welcome a platoon of soldiers who are to be billeted with them. The trusting residents then discover that the soldiers are Germans who proceed to hold the village captive. ... more about Went the Day Well?
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1.9908
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. ... more about Halfway House
Not Available on DVD
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1.8949
Comedian 'Tommy Trinder' (qv) 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. ... more about Bells Go Down
Not Available on DVD
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1.8333
In a futuristic, state-run society controlled by "Big Brother" in which love is outlawed, employee of the state Winston Smith falls for Julia, and is tortured and brainwashed for his crime. ... more about 1984
Not Available on DVD
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1.8181
Not Available on DVD
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1.8173
Arnold Boult is determined to make his son a success at all costs. He commits arson, causes two suicides, and bribes people. His wife, unable to leave him, becomes alcoholic and dies. His son is killed. ... more about Edward
Not Available on DVD
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1.7077
In Victorian Brighton a scheming pub landlady befriends an innocent chemist's assistant in order to get hold of poison to do away with her boozy husband. ... more about Pink String and Sealing Wax
Not Available on DVD
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1.7077
Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord, a group of pub locals lead by bookie Joe Harris set out to prove that former customer Eddie Graves is not guilty of the murder for which he is due to be hanged in ... more about Saloon Bar
Not Available on DVD
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1.6902
The black sheep of a family (Dick Dudgeon) and the local minister (Anthony Anderson) discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War. ... more about Devil's Disciple
Not Available on DVD
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1.6564
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. ... more about 55 Days at Peking
Not Available on DVD
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1.6164
The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940. Disabled and left to the mercy of patrolling U-boats the crew must keep her afloat and out of harms way. ... more about San Demetrio London
Not Available on DVD
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1.6072
Lt. Cranford lives the life of a playboy sportsman until the outbreak of war when he joins the Royal Navy and is assigned to convoy protection duties. ... more about Convoy
Not Available on DVD
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1.5159
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. ... more about Easy Money
Not Available on DVD
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1.4208
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. ... more about Magic Box
Not Available on DVD
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1.3968
A priest tapes his parishioners' confessions, then uses the tapes to blackmail them. When they can't or won't pay, he murders them. After several of the parishioners turn up dead, a housekeeper begins to have her suspicions about him. ... more about House of Mortal Sin
Not Available on DVD
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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". ... more about Diamond City
Not Available on DVD
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Nurse Anne Graham is controversially - but rightly - acquitted of murder after her elderly patient dies in suspicious circumstances. ... more about Girl in the News
Not Available on DVD
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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. ... more about No Love for Johnnie
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
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. ... more about Rebel
Not Available on DVD
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1.2422
0.5549
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