The best George Merritt’s movies

George Merritt

George Merritt

10/12/1890- 27/08/1977
We present our ranking of the best George Merritt’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about George Merritt.
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Dracula

Dracula
7.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 22/05/1958
  • Character: Policeman (uncredited)
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

Young and Innocent

Young and Innocent
6.8/10
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.

Cromwell

Cromwell
7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 16/09/1970
  • Character: William
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.

Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2
6.8/10
In England, a group of space scientists, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

The Day the Earth Caught Fire
7.2/10
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.

I, Monster

I, Monster
5.7/10
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.

Q Planes

Q Planes
6.5/10
An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.

Rembrandt

Rembrandt
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/11/1936
  • Character: Church Warden (uncredited)
This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he's unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.

A Canterbury Tale

A Canterbury Tale
7.3/10
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

The Way Ahead

The Way Ahead
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 09/06/1944
  • Character: Sergeant Major (uncredited)
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.

Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road
6.5/10
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

The Hands of Orlac

The Hands of Orlac
5.6/10
Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff grafts a pair of new hands on the hapless Orlac. Unfortunately, they're the hands of an executed murderer - useless for a pianist, but quite handy for less delicate work...

Crime Unlimited

Crime Unlimited
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/09/1935
  • Character: Detective Inspector Cardby
A young police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.

The Ghost Train

The Ghost Train
6.2/10
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.

Gasbags

Gasbags
5.4/10
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.

Dusty Ermine

Dusty Ermine
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/12/1936
  • Character: Police constable
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

The Upturned Glass

The Upturned Glass
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/06/1947
  • Character: Policeman (uncredited)
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.

The Proud Valley

The Proud Valley
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/04/1940
  • Character: Mr. Lewis
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

The Phantom Fiend

The Phantom Fiend
5.6/10
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.

Ships with Wings

Ships with Wings
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 10/11/1941
  • Character: Surgeon Comdr.
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930th style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.

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