John Laurie Movies

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Donat

Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new...

Genre: Action

Cast: Peter Sellers

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: John Clements

Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lowe

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Patricia Laffan

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered...

Genre: War

Cast: Roger Livesey

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Niven

Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Noel Willman

A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Laurie

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's...

Genre: Romance

Cast: James Mason

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Roc

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Vincent Price

During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barry Fitzgerald

A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hugh Sinclair

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Simmons

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Richardson

Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anton Walbrook

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Wendy Hiller

Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe

Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.

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Cast: Ralph Richardson

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at how Myron Kinley and his team extinguished an out of control oil installation fire at Naft Safidi in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Laurie

An illustrated version of Twa Corbies made as the BFI’s contribution to the Festival of Britain. Enlivened by the distinctive voice of John...

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Cast: John Laurie

Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Frances Day

Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during World War II, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe (Linda Darnell) and Marine Michael Dugan...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Linda Darnell

'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valentine Dyall

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lucan

David Shields refuses to go into agriculture and opts instead for ship building

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gordon Jackson

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

The history of Scotland and the factors that have shaped the character of its people.

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Cast: John Laurie

In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Niven

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stewart Granger

Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Peter Finch

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing...

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Cast: James Hayter

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Paul Robeson

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Clive Brook

Ace reporter Jeff Holly is assigned to investigate the murder of a politician whose body was found stashed in a trunk. Holly's enthusiasm soon wanes...

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Cast: Paul Carpenter

King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Janette Scott

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nova Pilbeam

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Richardson

Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Burgess Meredith

A colorful British documentary about the manufacturing of steel.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Laurie

Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth, an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, who is accused of murdering a girl.

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Cast: Margaret Lockwood

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clive Brook

Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenneth More

Essentially a re-release of Michael Powell's 'The Edge of the World (1937)' , but with colour 'bookends' in which director and actors revisit the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Laurie

As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Tommy Trinder

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Laughton

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.

Genre: War

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork is the best way to do things.

Genre: Family

Cast: Pip Rolls

Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jack Hawkins

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Hartnell

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Alan Ladd

Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'Anthony and Cleopatra' with Glenda Jackson, 'Monty...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eric Morecambe

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Genre: History

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Banks

A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.

Genre: War

Cast: John Laurie

The German adopted-daughter of a Belgian innkeeper is threatened with internment by him if she reveals to the British billetees that he is a spy....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugh Williams

"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Stuart

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade...

Genre: War

Cast: John Clements

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Bobby Driscoll

The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with...

Genre: Romance

Cast: George Arliss

A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bernard Braden

A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elliott Mason

Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Glynis Johns

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Simmons

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Laurie

Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugh Williams

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Greene

During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Gates

The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peggy Mount

David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Banks

Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing. When it's finished it arrives on the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlie Drake

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Todd

The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald Sinden

Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Derek Nimmo

The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude Rains

An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Richard Todd

A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after...

Genre: Family

Cast: Eugeniusz Chylek

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eric Portman

The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Laurie

Maggie Hobson (Patricia Routledge) decides to marry Willie Mossop (Michael Caine), the gifted but underpaid bootmaker in her father's shop. Despite...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrie