The best Stratford Johns’s movies

Stratford Johns

Stratford Johns

22/09/1925- 29/01/2002
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The Lair of the White Worm

The Lair of the White Worm
6/10
In a remote corner of England's Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshiping - very erotically - her pagan god, The White Worm, who hungers for the taste of virginal flesh.

The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 08/12/1955
  • Character: Security Guard (uncredited)
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

Splitting Heirs

Splitting Heirs
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/04/1993
  • Character: Butler
A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts.

The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away
7.1/10
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only german prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

Cromwell

Cromwell
7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 16/09/1970
  • Character: President Bradshaw
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.

Salome's Last Dance

Salome's Last Dance
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/05/1988
  • Character: Herod / Alfred Taylor
London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establishment will participate.

The Ship That Died of Shame

The Ship That Died of Shame
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1955
  • Character: Garage Worker (uncredited)
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
4.9/10
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
5.2/10
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts...

Who Done It?

Who Done It?
5.6/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 20/03/1956
  • Character: PC Coleman
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.

Dance with a Stranger

Dance with a Stranger
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/03/1985
  • Character: Morrie Conley
Based on the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain, Mike Newell's Dance With a Stranger (1985) concentrates on Ellis's (Richardson) short-lived relationship with motor-racing driver David Blakely (Rupert Everett).

A Demon in My View

A Demon in My View
4.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 23/09/1991
  • Character: Stanley Caspian
A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.

Hand in Hand

Hand in Hand
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 06/02/1961
  • Character: Farmer
Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never." Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community. When the two young children are made aware of their ideological differences, it begins to tear apart their friendship, and they decide to test whose God is stronger. What they discover is that at the core, their religions really aren't that different from one another: both worship a God of love, not vengeance.

Wild Geese II

Wild Geese II
4.8/10
  • Genre: ActionThriller
  • Release: 18/10/1985
  • Character: Mustapha El Ali
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Hitler's SS: Portrait In Evil

Hitler's SS: Portrait In Evil
6.5/10
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl (John Shea), a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A." (storm troopers).

The Plank

The Plank
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/05/1967
  • Character: Station Sergeant
Classic British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.

The Little Match Girl

The Little Match Girl
8.7/10
The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's dreams and hope, and was first published in 1845. This adaptation was made for Harlech TV and broadcast on 28th December 1986. It starred Twiggy and Roger Daltrey and features the song Mistletoe and Wine" which became a #1 hit for Cliff Richard in 1988, and the biggest selling record of that year

The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent
  • Release: 28/10/1992
  • Character: Home Secretary
1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly plans the operation, seeking help from The Professor. Verloc is also an informant for the police and the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Inspector Heat add additional pressure on Verloc and his attempts to carry out his plan. Verloc’s subsequent actions gravely affect his wife who is devoted to her mentally unbalanced brother Stevie.

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
6.2/10
The grandchild of Professor James Moriarty had promised the world that it has only five days left to live. Moriarty is a master of disguise, a crack shot, and is very patient. Several government figures are shot to death, and it seems that it truly is the end of civilization as we know it - until the President learns that the grandson of Sherlock Holmes is living at 221B Baker Street, and sends the Police Commissioner of Scotland Yard to employ him.

Violent Playground

Violent Playground
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/01/1958
  • Character: Police Constable (uncredited)
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.

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