The best Oliver Johnston’s movies

Oliver Johnston

Oliver Johnston

30/04/1888- 22/12/1966
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A Countess From Hong Kong

A Countess From Hong Kong
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 05/01/1967
  • Character: Mr. Milton Clark
A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.

The Tomb of Ligeia

The Tomb of Ligeia
6.4/10
Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.

A King in New York

A King in New York
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/09/1957
  • Character: Ambassador Jaume
Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York—almost broke. To get some money, he makes TV commercials, where he meets a child who has communist parents. Because of this meeting, he's immediately suspected of being a communist—and gets caught up in the McCarthy's hearings.

It!

It!
5.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 17/03/1966
  • Character: Curator Trimingham
After a warehouse fire, museum director Groof and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Groof is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.

Dr. Crippen

Dr. Crippen
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/08/1963
  • Character: Lord Chief Justice
A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.

Kidnapped

Kidnapped
6.6/10
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.

Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 12/07/1961
  • Character: Father Livoni
The story of a lusty, fighting young adventurer who exchanged his sword for a cross

The Fast Lady

The Fast Lady
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/12/1962
  • Character: Bulmer
A Scottish civil servant (Stanley Baxter) must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's (Julie Christie) tycoon father (James Robertson Justice).

Island of Love

Island of Love
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/06/1963
  • Character: Prof. Krumwitz
Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripper girl friend, Cha Cha Miller. The film is such a disaster, however, that Steve and his writer, Paul Ferris, decide to escape on a freighter to Greece. En route, Steve learns that the island of Paradeisos has lost its tourist trade because it has no apparent historical or mythological heritage. Intrigued, he hits upon the scheme of turning Paradeisos into a legendary island of love and taking a cut from all commercial enterprises. After planting Greek antiquities in the waters surrounding the island, Steve induces Paul to "recover" them, thus causing the tourist trade to increase.

Stolen Life

Stolen Life
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/01/1939
  • Character: Prof. Bardesley
Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.

Backfire!

Backfire!
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/01/1962
Arson is the way out for a failing cosmetics company.

Son of Robin Hood

Son of Robin Hood
4.7/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 01/11/1958
  • Character: Apothecary
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.

A Touch of Larceny

A Touch of Larceny
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/02/1960
  • Character: Minister
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.

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