Search results for "John Mills"
The Human Factor

The Human Factor

The Human Factor
IMDb: 5.6
95

After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.

Genre: Action, Thriller
The Truth About Spring

The Truth About Spring

The Truth About Spring
IMDb: 6.4
102

Tommy Tyler, a lazy Caribbean sailor, and his tom-boy daughter, Spring, are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer, to help with…

The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair
IMDb: 6.6
105

During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she…

Genre: Drama, Romance
We Dive at Dawn

We Dive at Dawn

We Dive at Dawn
IMDb: 6.7
98

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 Tiger are summoned from…

Genre: War
The Big Blockade

The Big Blockade

The Big Blockade
IMDb: 5.4
73

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

Genre: Drama, War
Flame in the Streets

Flame in the Streets

Flame in the Streets
IMDb: 6.7
93

Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in…

Genre: Drama
The Baby and the Battleship

The Baby and the Battleship

The Baby and the Battleship
IMDb: 5.4
96

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails…

Genre: Comedy
The Vicious Circle

The Vicious Circle

The Vicious Circle
IMDb: 6.6
84

When Dr Howard Latimer finds the German Actress that he has just met at London Airport murdered in his flat, it leads him into the world of murder, blackmail and…

Tudor Rose

Tudor Rose

Tudor Rose
IMDb: 6.5
80

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

Genre: Drama, History
The Green Cockatoo

The Green Cockatoo

The Green Cockatoo
IMDb: 5.8
65

Song and dance man John Mills, guv’nor of the eponymous nitery, helps new-girl-in-town René Ray flee a false murder charge, except neither knows the corpse is Mills’ brother Robert Newton,…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
IMDb: 7.7
86

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the…

Genre: Documentary
It’s Great to be Young!

It’s Great to be Young!

It’s Great to be Young!
IMDb: 6.5
94

IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle…

Genre: Comedy, Music
The October Man

The October Man

The October Man
IMDb: 7.1
95

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…

O.H.M.S.

O.H.M.S.

O.H.M.S.
IMDb: 5.8
87

American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the…

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
So Well Remembered

So Well Remembered

So Well Remembered
IMDb: 7
114

A mill-owner’s ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband’s political career.

The Young Mr. Pitt

The Young Mr. Pitt

The Young Mr. Pitt
IMDb: 6.7
118

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

Genre: Drama, History
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

Dunkirk
IMDb: 7.1
134

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British…

Genre: Drama, War
Dulcima

Dulcima

Dulcima
IMDb: 6.5
98

John Mills plays a farmer who loves a drink but his farm is in a state of disrepair. He meets a young girl called Dulcima who takes pity on him…

Genre: Drama
Night of the Fox

Night of the Fox

Night of the Fox
IMDb: 6.2
200

An American officer on a Landing Craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy takes part on landing maneuvers, his craft was attacked and sunk by German…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Way to the Stars

The Way to the Stars

The Way to the Stars
IMDb: 7.3
109

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows
IMDb: 7.7
81

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed…

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
IMDb: 5.8
100

Private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster. This neo-noir remake of the…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Chuka

Chuka

Chuka
IMDb: 6.3
105

A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
A Black Veil for Lisa

A Black Veil for Lisa

A Black Veil for Lisa
IMDb: 5.9
95

When a narcotics officer suspects that his beautiful wife, who is a former criminal, is having an affair, he becomes so obsessed with this that he has major problems to…

Genre: Thriller
Ryan’s Daughter

Ryan’s Daughter

Ryan’s Daughter
IMDb: 7.4
206

An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier.

The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box
IMDb: 6.8
105

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow
IMDb: 6.6
115

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2…

Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory
IMDb: 7.5
106

Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his…

Genre: Drama
Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson
IMDb: 7.2
126

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but…

Genre: Adventure, Family
I Was Monty’s Double

I Was Monty’s Double

I Was Monty’s Double
IMDb: 6.9
101

The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German’s about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.

Genre: Drama, History, War
Town on Trial

Town on Trial

Town on Trial
IMDb: 6.4
95

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings,…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story
IMDb: 7
94

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an “escape-proof” German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.

Genre: Drama, War
Hobson’s Choice

Hobson’s Choice

Hobson’s Choice
IMDb: 7.7
107

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
IMDb: 7.9
114

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let
IMDb: 6.8
90

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor’s nearly perfected bomb sight.

In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve
IMDb: 7.2
115

The story of the HMS Torrin, from it’s construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain…

Genre: Drama, War
The Family Way

The Family Way

The Family Way
IMDb: 7.3
115

Following the wedding of young Jenny Piper and Arthur Fitton (Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett), a rowdy reception is held at a local pub where the newlyweds are subjected to…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Thirty Nine Steps

The Thirty Nine Steps

The Thirty Nine Steps
IMDb: 6.6
102

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel…

Genre: Mystery
Who’s That Girl

Who’s That Girl

Who’s That Girl
IMDb: 4.8
92

An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he’s asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks…

Genre: Comedy
Above Us the Waves

Above Us the Waves

Above Us the Waves
IMDb: 6.6
99

In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means,…

Genre: War