Stratford Johns Movies

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jack Hawkins

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Sellers

A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eric Idle

John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: John Cleese

Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Miranda Richardson

"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting...

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Cast: Frank Finlay

Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Burl Ives

A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Genre: Action

Cast: Scott Glenn

A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tommy Cooper

In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Donald Sinden

London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenda Jackson

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenneth More

Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Victor Banerjee

A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Anthony Perkins

The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's hopes and dreams, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Hordern

On a farm owned by Eve Trent and her sister Mary, young archaeologist Angus Flint discovers a large and inexplicable skull, which he soon deduces...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Amanda Donohoe

A two-part episode of the 1978 TV series "The Return of the Saint," edited together and released as a feature.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ian Ogilvy

A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.

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Cast: Roger Daltrey

Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jane Hylton

When Marjorie's husband of 20 years dies of a brain tumour, she's hit financially as well as emotionally. The money she makes packing tights in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alison Steadman

Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Williams

A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexei Sayle

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Lucas

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alec Guinness

Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper is determined to make husband George celebrate their wedding anniversary in style, at a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yootha Joyce

The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: John Shea

In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a new Jaguar, and it immediately becomes his new love. What he doesn't know is that his wife is as...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Julie Walters

Drama set around the kidnapping of a footballer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helmut Griem

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the...

Genre: War

Cast: Hardy Krüger

Play based on Brian Patten's book. Local children and retired detective Moon band together to protect a leprechaun from the investigations of the...

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Cast: Alun Armstrong

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Howerd

Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Philip Needs

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Benny Hill

The Doctor and his companions arrive on a spaceship headed for Earth, populated by natives of Earth from various different eras and commanded by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Davison

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Harris

A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Stanley Baker

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Baker

Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions...

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Cast: Patrick McGoohan

1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir...

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Cast: David Suchet

Councillor Podkolyossin has called on the services of Madame Fyokla, the matchmaker - decision he is already beginning to regret. Against his better...

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Cast: John Wood