Jack Melford Movies

  • 1949
    Warning to Wantons

    Warning to Wantons

    Warning to Wantons

    61949HD

    Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the...

    Warning to Wantons
  • 1953
    Background

    Background

    Background

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    Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the...

    Background
  • 1940
    The Briggs Family

    The Briggs Family

    The Briggs Family

    01940HD

    During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car

    The Briggs Family
  • 1961
    The Fourth Square

    The Fourth Square

    The Fourth Square

    01961HD

    The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewellery which had led to murder.

    The Fourth Square
  • 1947
    The October Man

    The October Man

    The October Man

    6.21947HD

    Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...

    The October Man
  • 1955
    The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers

    7.31955HD

    Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical...

    The Ladykillers
  • 1940
    Crook's Tour

    Crook's Tour

    Crook's Tour

    5.71940HD

    Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of...

    Crook's Tour
  • 1943
    Theatre Royal

    Theatre Royal

    Theatre Royal

    3.51943HD

    The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will...

    Theatre Royal
  • 1936
    Radio Lover

    Radio Lover

    Radio Lover

    01936HD

    A penniless young charmer hits upon an ingenious route to fame and fortune.

    Radio Lover
  • 1946
    The Laughing Lady

    The Laughing Lady

    The Laughing Lady

    71946HD

    A musical set during the French Revolution.

    The Laughing Lady
  • 1962
    What Every Woman Wants

    What Every Woman Wants

    What Every Woman Wants

    01962HD

    A marital comedy of wives trying to reform their husbands

    What Every Woman Wants
  • 1937
    Command Performance

    Command Performance

    Command Performance

    6.51937HD

    Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The...

    Command Performance
  • 1957
    Just My Luck

    Just My Luck

    Just My Luck

    61957HD

    Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants...

    Just My Luck
  • 1938
    It's in the Air

    It's in the Air

    It's in the Air

    5.71938HD

    George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he...

    It's in the Air
  • 1964
    A Shot in the Dark

    A Shot in the Dark

    A Shot in the Dark

    7.1871964HD

    Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic...

    A Shot in the Dark
  • 1962
    Gang War

    Gang War

    Gang War

    01962HD

    During the early 1960s, a Chicago mobster and a Londoner try to get involved in a jukebox racket.

    Gang War
  • 1957
    The End of the Line

    The End of the Line

    The End of the Line

    5.41957HD

    The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.

    The End of the Line
  • 1960
    Feet of Clay

    Feet of Clay

    Feet of Clay

    01960HD

    Newly graduated defense attorney David Kyle (Vincent Ball) is stymied by his first case: to represent youthful criminal Jimmy Fuller (Brian Smith),...

    Feet of Clay
  • 1956
    Guilty?

    Guilty?

    Guilty?

    4.751956HD

    Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching...

    Guilty?
  • 1935
    Look Up and Laugh

    Look Up and Laugh

    Look Up and Laugh

    4.51935HD

    Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes...

    Look Up and Laugh