William Mervyn Movies

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.

In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth....

An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).

Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering...

A group of friends search for a young English Oxford student who has disappeared whilst researching in Greece. They are shocked to find that,...

Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she...

1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly...

A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange...

An aging businessman's squabbling children object to his proposed marriage to his much younger assistant, and each for his or her own selfish reasons...

Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily...

Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he...

An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."