Cast: Margaret Johnston

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Margaret Johnston. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Magic Box

1951 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Robert Donat · Margaret Johnston · Maria Schell · Renée Asherson

Synopsis Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he...

6.7

42 votes

6.7

42 votes

Burn, Witch, Burn

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Hayers

Cast Peter Wyngarde · Janet Blair · Margaret Johnston · Anthony Nicholls

Synopsis A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put...

6.5

370 votes

6.5

370 votes

Lovers, Happy Lovers!

1954 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction René Clément

Cast Gérard Philipe · Valerie Hobson · Joan Greenwood · Margaret Johnston

Synopsis From the Louis Hemon novel "M. Ripois and His Nemesis" about Andre Ripois, a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches from Paris to London. Andre is breaking up with his wife, Catherine, over his attentions to her best friend...

6.3

33 votes

6.3

33 votes

Life at the Top

1965 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ted Kotcheff

Cast Laurence Harvey · Jean Simmons · Honor Blackman · Michael Craig

Synopsis Joe Lampton thought he had really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town. But he finds he is being sidelined at work and his private life manipulated by his father-in-law. Even so, he ignores an...

6.2

46 votes

6.2

46 votes

The Psychopath

1966 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Patrick Wymark · Margaret Johnston · John Standing · Colin Gordon

Synopsis Four men who were involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of WW II are found murdered with tiny dolls left next to their corpses.

5.8

41 votes

5.8

41 votes

Sebastian

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Greene

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Susannah York · Lilli Palmer · John Gielgud

Synopsis A British mathematician, working on code decryption, unexpectedly falls in love with another decrypter. This leads them to a complicated intrigue within the codebreakers.

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Portrait of Clare

1950 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast Margaret Johnston · Richard Todd · Robin Bailey · Ronald Howard

Synopsis As told in flashback to her granddaughter: the three marriages of Clare Hingston. These are: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister.

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A Man About the House

1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Arliss

Cast Margaret Johnston · Dulcie Gray · Kieron Moore · Guy Middleton

Synopsis Agnes and Ellen Isit, two poor English sisters, unexpectedly inherit from their uncle a rich estate near Naples, complete with big villa and manly Italian majordomo. The latter, Salvatore, makes use of his Latin charm to seduce Agnes, who soon...

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The Rake's Progress

1945 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Rex Harrison · Lilli Palmer · Godfrey Tearle · Griffith Jones

Synopsis Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends,...

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Touch and Go

1955 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Truman

Cast Jack Hawkins · Margaret Johnston · June Thorburn · Roland Culver

Synopsis When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm, that his new furniture designs, are not in keeping with the firms image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family, and emigrate to Australia. but his problems are only...

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