Mervyn Johns Movies

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

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

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.

In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his...

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

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

Russia's Space Race success is mainly due to a brilliant rocket scientist, Kuprin. But a journalist and a politician in London remember him as a...

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