John Laurie Movies

Hamlet

78/100

Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former King.

Dad's Army

69/100

The misadventures of a ragtag group of elderly Home Guard local defense volunteers at the onset of WW2.

The Edge of the World

74/100

A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.

The Way Ahead

71/100

WW2 drama that follows a group of British conscripts, starting with their rigorous basic training and ending with their deployment in North Africa.

Kidnapped

67/100

In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.

Siege of the Saxons

47/100

In league with the Saxon invaders, Edmund of Cornwall plans to slay King Arthur, marry his daughter and usurp the throne of England but wizard Merlin and outlaw Robert Marshall stand in the way.

Bonnie Prince Charlie

51/100

In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.

Island of Desire

64/100

In 1943, an Allied hospital-ship is sunk by the Japanese in the South-Pacific where a nurse and a Marine become marooned on an island abandoned by natives.

Secret Flight

67/100

During World War II, on the eve of the Battle of Britain, British scientists develop the first radar systems to be employed against the German Luftwaffe.

No Trace

63/100

When crime-writer Robert Southley finds his well-healed London lifestyle threatened by blackmail from a former American criminal associate he murders him. He is surprised when a Scotland ... See full summary »

Floodtide

69/100

David Shields decides to become a ship designer instead of following the family tradition and entering farming.

Tread Softly

54/100

The star of a London musical walks out before the curtain up, but the show must go on in a haunted theatre, The Regency. 40 years previously, the star of Hamlet was murdered, and more are dying to keep a dark secret.

The Agitator

64/100

A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.

Murder Reported

80/100

Ace reporter Jeff Holly is assigned to investigate the murder of a politician whose body was found stashed in a trunk. Holly's enthusiasm soon wanes when his editor insists that he take his... See full summary »

Step Laughing Into the Grave

Jeannie

In Earnest

Straight-laced Jack and his reprobate friend, Algy, navigate their ridiculous love lives while trying to discover who they are - literally.

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

The fearsome Captain Brassbound meets his match in a titled English lady.