John Glenister Movies

A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell....

A small boy runs away from home for no apparent reason. The police find his body in London having died of exposure. Why did he leave home?

Tom Beauchurch , a successful New England lawyer, takes his wife Ginette to Paris for a second honeymoon. It is a Paris in the throes of the Algerian...

Zigger Zagger is a 1967 play by Peter Terson which was the first work to be commissioned by the National Youth Theatre who revived it at Wilton's...

Christine, grieving for her fiancé who was shot down by the German Luftwaffe during the war, is persuaded by her cousin to meet a German...

On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her...

Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.

Charlie's carefree bachelor's life in his rented bedsit is shattered when his landlady discovers evidence that he had female company overnight.

Champagne dialogue alleviates nervousness of sleeping together.

A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.

Two men from Derby County FC are keen to make a new signing, but he is not at home. His wife promises he won't be long and makes conversation with...

The path of righteousness is a stony one. And Lo! for Daniel it is stonier than most.

Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio people. Suspicions of infidelity can make the world a...

1999: A perma-redundant father takes his family on a strange ‘working holiday’, scrubbing floors in an undersea missile base.

A televised Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie, a nineteenth century aristocrat's daughter, is...

A man's life is turned upside down when he receives a mysterious photograph in the post.

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. In love with double agent Guy...

Grinding, gruelling and unceasing, Dennis Barker's training sessions push his young swimmers to the limits of their endurance. Outstanding among...

George is a leading industrialist, respected and feared by many. Billy, however, has no fear of him, as he shows when chance brings them together.