Mervyn Johns
13 titles
Filmography
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The Halfway House
(1944)A spooky wartime Ealing classic about a group of people seeking shelter in an inn, where all is not what it seems.

Dead of Night
(1945)An architect senses impending doom as his half remembered recurring dream turns into reality. Guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales.

Pink String and Sealing Wax
(1945)The naive son of a puritanical pharmacist gets mixed up in a murder plot when he becomes dangerously infatuated with a pub owner's alluring wife.

Scrooge
(1951)In this adaptation of Dickens’s classic novel, a bitter old miser is given a chance at redemption when he is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
The Counterfeit Plan
(1957)When master criminal and murderer Max Brant escapes from death row, he flees from France to England and hides out in the mansion of his former cohort, Louie Bernard, a reformed forger. It's not long before Brant blackmails the reluctant Bernard into resuming his criminal career with Brant. Situations become even more complicated after Bernard's lovely daughter arrives home, arousing Brant's lecherous tendencies.

Counterblast
(1948)An escaped Nazi scientist impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect Germans in their planned germ warfare.

The Captive Heart
(1946)After escaping from a concentration camp in 1940, Karel assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.

Edward, My Son
(1949)Obsessed with the desire to give his only son the best of everything, a man destroys his whole world in this riveting drama starring Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr (in an Academy Award®-nominated performance*). When the boy is five, his father (Tracy) commits arson to pay for a vital operation. This fateful step launches a rocketlike career of business success. In the process he ruins his partner, destroys his wife's love for him and then her will to live, and finally faces jail himself for what turns out to have been an empty dream. Based on the play by Robert Morley and Noel Langley. *1949: Best Actress.

Romeo and Juliet
(1954)
The Intimate Stranger
(1956)A married movie studio executive's life starts to unravel when he is stalked by a seductively beautiful woman he claims he does not know.

The Day of the Triffids
(1963)After a strange meteor shower leaves most of the population blind, a merchant navy officer must save humanity from attacks by violent plants.

80,000 Suspects
(1963)When a smallpox epidemic breaks out in a British city, a doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested even further as he tries to contain the outbreak.

The Master of Ballantrae
(1953)Errol Flynn, stars in this romantic, adventurous drama of the roguish swordsman who battles for the family homestead and joins the fight to make Prince Charles the next King of England.