John Laurie Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

A dramatised account of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, performed and broadcast live on Scottish Television on 29th November 1967 to mark STV's...

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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....

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