Mervyn Johns — Actor (15)
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The Blue Peter (1955)
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Wolf Rilla actor: Kieron Moore / Sarah Lawson …
other title: Navy Heroes
A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communist hands, his mind confused by brain-washing and indoctrination at the hands of his captors, and accepts a post as an instructor at the Outward Bound Sea School.
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They Knew Mr. Knight (1946)
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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?
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Easy Money (1948)
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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
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Once More, with Feeling! (1960)
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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.
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The Next of Kin (1942)
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Thorold Dickinson actor: Mervyn Johns / Nova Pilbeam …
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.
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Captain Boycott (1947)
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Frank Launder actor: Stewart Granger / Kathleen Ryan …
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.
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San Demetrio London (1943)
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Charles Frend actor: Walter Fitzgerald / Ralph Michael …
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.
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Moby Dick (1956)
Moby Dick
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.