John Salew Movies

Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Gamble

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Dana Andrews

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alec Guinness

Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Deborah Kerr

In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sydney Tafler

Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

When a USAF sergeant stationed on a base in England is suspected and then accused of murdering a woman, both he and a local school teacher must race...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Crawford

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eric Portman

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alec Guinness

A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lilli Palmer

Television broadcast of L'avare by Molière.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Oscar

A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alex Nicol

A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arlene Dahl

The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tommy Handley

Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roger Livesey

George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and...

Genre: Music

Cast: George Formby

British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and...

Genre: War

Cast: John Clements

A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michael Redgrave

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eric Portman

Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sybil Thorndike

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gordon Harker

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Kent

All but a prisoner in the exotic Malayan retreat she shares with her Chinese financier husband, Yuan Sing, British singer Sadie Merivale begins a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Lukas

Directed by Jirí Weiss

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Cast: Mark Dignam

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Warner

A historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwynn. In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jessie Matthews

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

Genre: Music

Cast: Eric Portman

Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sarah Churchill

Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie...

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Cast: Frankie Vaughan

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Attenborough

An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Dana Andrews

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ian Carmichael

The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Newton

Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: William Hartnell

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis Price

At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a...

Genre: War

Cast: Gordon Harker

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Newton

Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Carole Landis

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Todd

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Denison

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Todd

Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a lesson in how to avoid being broken into.

Genre:

Cast: John Salew

George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Formby

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Conrad Veidt

A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.

Genre: War

Cast: Will Fyffe

Two lovers search for some privacy to kiss during the blitz.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anne Firth

William Thorne, vicar of a small village, leads a modest life as a clergyman. Supporting his wife Vera and musically talented daughter Susan with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

An adulterous husband plans to kill his invalid wife. He thinks that he has the perfect alibi, but an alert detective unravels his story.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nicole Maurey

Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dennis Price

After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clifford Evans

A gangster's girl loves a one-eyed boxer who is framed for robbery.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Terence de Marney

In 1783 England, King George III appoints William Pitt only 24 years old, as PM. When members of Parliament refuse to take Pitt seriously, he calls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michael Redgrave

Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".

Genre: Western

Cast: David Farrar

IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Mills

Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise. Not to be confused with the later Hollywood adaptation.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alban Blakelock

Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rex Harrison

When Hitler invades Poland, sports journalist Colin Metcalfe (Hugh Williams) is unexpectedly reassigned as a foreign correspondent in Norway. En...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugh Williams

Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernard Miles

World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugh Williams

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Mills

During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Stewart Granger

The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wilfrid Lawson

A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jayne Mansfield

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Anne Crawford

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Roc

When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Attenborough

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

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michael Gough

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Susan Shaw

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Stewart

Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Hanley

The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Beatty

A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dinah Sheridan

During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they're aided by...

Genre: War

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

In World War II, desert hotel proprietors Emad and Yasmin are caught between the warring armies and have to constantly shift their political...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yvonne De Carlo

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Bird

"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eric Portman

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Googie Withers

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tommy Trinder

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

Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Celia Johnson

A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Watling

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivien Leigh

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

Genre: Drama

Cast: W. Somerset Maugham

A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is broken by a lovely young girl to whom he is forced...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugh Williams

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea...

Genre: War

Cast: John Mills

Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Diana Dors

Augie comes out of prison and finds his old vice racket has been taken over by the sinister Gollar, so he dreams up a new scam.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Terence Morgan

Young country curate, Roger Strawbridge, and his wife, Cathy, find themselves in financial distress. In a desperate attempt to resolve their money...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rona Anderson