William Mervyn Movies

In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth....

An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.

When a rapacious new landlord threatens to evict him, seize his horse, and leave him penniless, the young farmer Dick Turpin flees to London and...

After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper...

An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."

After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan...

A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange...

Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.

An aging businessman's squabbling children object to his proposed marriage to his much younger assistant, and each for his or her own selfish reasons...

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily...

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a...

Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering...