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 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...

On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by....

In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.

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

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...

Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England. The brilliant 1963...

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

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

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...

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

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...

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...