John Barrett Movies

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

An elderly recluse dies in the process of changing her will. The change would have meant that the servants would continue to live i n her house - now...

Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching band. His life changes when...

A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port,...

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...

A dramatised documentary about the lives and work of the performers and administrators of a local orchestra. With the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.

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

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...

Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and...

A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell...

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in...

Jimmy Jewel and Hylda Baker star in this big screen spin-off of one of ITV's most popular comedy series of all time. When the father of Eli and...

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

Ben Packman leaves an old people's home to return to the Welsh mountains.

Grand Challenge pie-eating contest : ' Winner finishes most whole pies off the belt in half-an-hour. Ties decided on a raw cabbage '. The Bedworth...

A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge...

Three children rejuvenate an old traction engine and enter it for the County Championship.

Two kids with martial arts training and their black belt father rescue a professor from gangsters who want a stone tablet that she has discovered may...

Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...