John Turnbull Movies

A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Austin Trevor

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Donat

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

Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Arthur Wontner

A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Henry Kendall

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from...

Genre: History

Cast: Frederick Culley

A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wilfrid Lawson

During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gordon Harker

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Mills

A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: George Arliss

Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: John Stuart

In this mystery, ace detective Sexton Blake returns to solve the puzzling murder of a prominent violinist.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: George Curzon

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernest Milton

An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sebastian Shaw

After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bransby Williams

Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lawrence Anderson

There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is singing at the cheap one, but her father, who does not...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sally Gray

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of...

Genre: History

Cast: Charles Laughton

In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Howard

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jessie Matthews

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nova Pilbeam

Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tom Walls

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ann Todd

The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Veidt

A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.

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Cast: Camilla Horn

'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Crime

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Formby

Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Emlyn Williams

A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosalyn Boulter

A cinema organist carries out a series of grisly murders.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Turnbull

A man steals a priceless diamond, but returns it when an innocent man is arrested for the theft.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Garry Marsh

A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Leslie Banks

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clive Brook

A lovely English village is threatened with "development" by a speculative builder. The annual cricket match with another village shall decide its...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Moore

A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Edwards

British crime film directed by Ralph Ince

Genre: Crime

Cast: Wylie Watson

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Barry K. Barnes

A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command...

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Cast: John Garrick

The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geoffrey Hibbert

Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Hammond

When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dennis Neilson-Terry

A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Lynn

The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Garry Marsh

A carefree aristocrat becomes involved with a woman suspected of murder, and assists her in proving her innocence.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Cooper

A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Lloyd

A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Grey

'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Wallace Bosco

The granddaughter of an old showman is kept away from him by his daughter, ashamed of their background. But the girl is phenomenally talented by...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hazel Ascot

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Longden

A British crime film directed by William C. McGann

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nora Swinburne

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Cary Grant

A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Henry Kendall

An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: John Stuart

A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clive Brook

For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks,...

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Cast: Wilfrid Lawson

A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.

Genre: Music

Cast: George Carney

When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Eliot Makeham

"Priest - a miracle please" - The young Italian priest Don Alberto is sent to New York where he is alone and suffers the typical indifference of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lorenzo Piani

A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Patrick Barr

Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

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

A medium is murdered and suspicion falls on his niece.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sam Livesey

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lucan

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Howard

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Laughton

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sydney Howard