John Standing Movies

Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of...

It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the...

The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that...

Arrogant aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black has high social position, women at his feet, money and fame in the world of show jumping. But Rupert has a...

A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events...

American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she...

By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Captain Strong is given a dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate communication to the British...

In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government...

A vaudeville star struggles with her addiction to pancakes.

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

Adaptation of the play by Brandon Thomas.

At their isolated hotel in the Canadian Rockies, a pair of teenage twin girls need to get over themselves and work together in order to defeat the...

1956/57 - This episode reflects the Kim Philby spy affair.

The Backstory of the Original Dancing Queen... as told by Sir John Standing.

Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.