John Mortimer Movies

The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the...

A look at the history of British B-movies.

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his...

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

Attractive Julia Swinton is a middle-aged woman. Her life went normally and without big occurrences. But through the unexplained death of a familiar...

These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when...

Francesca's upbringing has been sheltered, but her fiancé isn't slow to realise that his future mother-in-law is in a very lucrative line of...

A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel...

This play is about a couple trying to overcome the problems in making a successfull clandestine assignation. It was one of a series of playlets by...

The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930s went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.

A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.

Film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, 'Mary'.

This hilarious one-act play by John Mortimer (creator of Rumpole of the Bailey) is the story of a highly incompetent lawyer preparing to defend a man...

German adaptation of The Dock Brief

A young salesman from Trinidad tries to sell a complete set of encyclopedia to Sally Louth, a housewife living on the Chelsea-Fulham border in London.