Mervyn Johns
6 titles
Filmography
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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.

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.

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.