Cast: Mervyn Johns

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


Dead of Night

1945 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti · Basil Dearden · Charles Crichton · Robert Hamer

Cast Michael Redgrave · Googie Withers · Mervyn Johns · Roland Culver

Synopsis Visiting a country house, architect Walter Craig realises that it and his fellow guests are familiar from a recurring nightmare. As the guests share their own tales of the supernatural, Craig is filled with a growing dread.

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

Went the Day Well?

1942 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

Cast Leslie Banks · C.V. France · Valerie Taylor · Marie Lohr

Synopsis During the Second World War a group of British soldiers arrive in the small, fictitious English village of "Bramley End". At first they are welcomed by the villagers, until doubts begin to grow about their true identity and purpose. When...

6.8

99 votes

6.8

99 votes

The Intimate Stranger

1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph Losey · Alec C. Snowden

Cast Richard Basehart · Mary Murphy · Constance Cummings · Roger Livesey

Synopsis A married movie studio executive's life, starts to fall apart when he is intimately stalked by a beautiful woman he claims he does not know.

6.8

39 votes

6.8

39 votes

A Christmas Carol

1951 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Alastair Sim · Kathleen Harrison · Mervyn Johns · Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve.

6.8

546 votes

6.8

546 votes

The Vicious Circle

1957 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast John Mills · Derek Farr · Noelle Middleton · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis When Dr Howard Latimer finds the German Actress that he has just met at London Airport murdered in his flat, it leads him into the world of murder, blackmail and a fake passport scam.

6.7

31 votes

6.7

31 votes

1984

1956 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Jan Sterling · Michael Redgrave · Donald Pleasence

Synopsis 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.

6.7

716 votes

6.7

716 votes

The Sundowners

1960 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Deborah Kerr · Robert Mitchum · Peter Ustinov · Glynis Johns

Synopsis 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. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth...

6.7

744 votes

6.7

744 votes

Never Let Go

1960 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Richard Todd · Peter Sellers · Elizabeth Sellars · Adam Faith

Synopsis Car salesman John (Richard Todd) can't seem to catch a break, so he decides to buy a car himself as a way to increase sales. But when his vehicle is stolen, John will stop at nothing to get it back,...

6.6

166 votes

6.6

166 votes

The Captive Heart

1946 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Michael Redgrave · Rachel Kempson · Frederick Leister · Mervyn Johns

Synopsis In the summer of 1940, Captain Karel Hasek (Michael Redgrave), a Czech soldier, escapes from Dachau concentration camp and assumes the identity of a dead British officer, Captain Geoffrey Mitchell. When he is caught, he joins thousands of British prisoners...

6.5

41 votes

6.5

41 votes

Edward, My Son

1949 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Spencer Tracy · Deborah Kerr · Ian Hunter · James Donald

Synopsis Londoners Arnold and Evelyn Boult had high hopes for the life of their son, Edward. His relatively short life ended up being one of privilege but irresponsibility. His life ended at age 23 when he was killed in battle in...

6.5

286 votes

6.5

286 votes

Romeo and Juliet

1954 · Movie · 138 min. · Italy

Direction Renato Castellani

Cast Laurence Harvey · Susan Shentall · Flora Robson · Norman Wooland

Synopsis Adaptación del clásico de William Shakespeare. La versión de Castellani es probablemente la mejor adaptación del drama de Shakespeare gracias sobretodo a la fidelidad del texto y al acierto de las localizaciones. Estos escenarios veroneses, donde se supone que ocurrieron...

6.5

181 votes

6.5

181 votes

Girl in the News

1940 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Barry K. Barnes · Emlyn Williams · Roger Livesey

Synopsis Anne Graham (played by Margaret Lockwood) is a caretaker nurse who is taking care of an elderly woman. The old lady sneaks some pills out of Graham's stash and ends up dead with an overdose. Graham is put on trial...

6.4

31 votes

6.4

31 votes

The Heroes of Telemark

1965 · Movie · 131 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Kirk Douglas · Richard Harris · Michael Redgrave · Mervyn Johns

Synopsis During WW2 Norway was occupied by Germany. In the clear deep fjords they tried to produce "heavy" water; a vital component in the making of an atomic bomb. A weapon that would win the war for Germany. Norwegian resistance movement...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

The Master of Ballantrae

1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction William Keighley

Cast Errol Flynn · Anthony Steel · Roger Livesey · Beatrice Campbell

Synopsis Buckle on your swashes for this swashbuckling adventure with a highlander who fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie who, after various escapades, becomes a pirate.

6.3

675 votes

6.3

675 votes

Pink String and Sealing Wax

1945 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Mervyn Johns · Mary Merrall · Gordon Jackson · Jean Ireland

Synopsis 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.

6.0

23 votes

6.0

23 votes

The Day of the Triffids

1962 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve Sekely · Freddie Francis

Cast Howard Keel · Janette Scott · Nicole Maurey · Kieron Moore

Synopsis A meteor shower disrupts the earth's ecosystem, blinds all who observed it and awakens meat-eating plants. As the hungry foliage grow ever faster, a sighted sailor and an alcoholic scientist help save humanity from becoming plant food. Script originally credited...

5.5

496 votes

5.5

496 votes

Francis of Assisi

1961 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Bradford Dillman · Dolores Hart · Stuart Whitman · Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis Director Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca") presents this religious drama examining the remarkable life of St. Francis of Assisi. The son of a wealthy cloth merchant, Francis gives up all of his worldly possessions in order to focus on dedicating his life...

5.3

133 votes

5.3

133 votes

The Old Dark House

1963 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction William Castle

Cast Tom Poston · Robert Morley · Janette Scott · Joyce Grenfell

Synopsis 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.

4.7

128 votes

4.7

128 votes