John Laurie Movies

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

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...

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

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

An amateur detective investigates a string of acid bath murders while on holiday.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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 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...

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

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.

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

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