Search results for "John Peverall"
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
IMDb: 7.3
98

English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III’s taxmen.

Genre: Adventure, Family
From Beyond the Grave

From Beyond the Grave

From Beyond the Grave
IMDb: 6.6
97

Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is “Offers You Cannot Resist”. A nasty fate awaits all of them—particularly those who cheat the…

Genre: Fantasy, Horror
The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau
IMDb: 6.4
110

In 1908 London, a women’s rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of…

Only When I Larf

Only When I Larf

Only When I Larf
IMDb: 5.9
104

A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Khartoum

Khartoum

Khartoum
IMDb: 6.8
134

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people…

Masquerade

Masquerade

Masquerade
IMDb: 5.5
102

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
This Is My Street

This Is My Street

This Is My Street
IMDb: 6.6
94

A bored housewife has an affair with her mother’s lodger.

Genre: Uncategorized
Captain Clegg

Captain Clegg

Captain Clegg
IMDb: 6.6
83

A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging “Marsh Phantoms” terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse.

The Terror of the Tongs

The Terror of the Tongs

The Terror of the Tongs
IMDb: 5.7
76

In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets, the hideous members…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
The Shadow of the Cat

The Shadow of the Cat

The Shadow of the Cat
IMDb: 6.3
79

Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped…

Genre: Horror
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
IMDb: 7.4
81

Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when…

Genre: Mystery
Yesterday’s Enemy

Yesterday’s Enemy

Yesterday’s Enemy
IMDb: 7.1
95

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines…

Genre: War
The Man Who Could Cheat Death

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

The Man Who Could Cheat Death
IMDb: 6.3
83

Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he’s really 104 years old. But people are starting to get…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles
IMDb: 6.9
87

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Up the Creek

Up the Creek

Up the Creek
IMDb: 6
83

Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out of harm’s way. But together with Chief…

Genre: Comedy