Mervyn Johns — Actor (14)
They Knew Mr. Knight (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
They Knew Mr. Knight
director: Norman Walker actor: Mervyn Johns / Nora Swinburne
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
Easy Money (1948) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Easy Money
director: Bernard Knowles actor: Jack Warner / Greta Gynt
other title: 橫財艷福
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Once More, with Feeling! (1960) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Once More, with Feeling!
director: Stanley Donen actor: Yul Brynner / Kay Kendall
other title: Noch einmal mit Gefühl / Chérie Recommençons
The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with his childishness, but the last straw is drawn when he begins an affair with a young pianist.
The Next of Kin (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Next of Kin
other title: 近親 / 近亲
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.
Captain Boycott (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Captain Boycott
other title: El rebelde / Capitán Boycott
In 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Captain Charles Boycott band together to assert their rights, patriotic farmer Hugh Davin leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracise their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
San Demetrio London (1943) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
San Demetrio London
other title: Le navire en feu / San Demetrio
Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.
Moby Dick (1956) [Movie]
Moby Dick
director: John Huston actor: Gregory Peck / Richard Basehart
other title: Moby Dick - La balena bianca / 백경
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.