John Barrett Movies

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious...

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective...

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the...

Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely...

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their...

Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new...

Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers...

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an...

An old man travels to London from the North Country, accompanied by his son, in order to find the truth about his daughter's suicide.

A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity...

Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.

The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano playing record) and the battle for good (his wife)...

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and...

Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in...

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.