Movies: John Salew

  • 1940
    The Thief of Bagdad

    The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

    The Thief of Bagdad

    7.01940HD

    When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess....

    The Thief of Bagdad
  • 1951
    The Lavender Hill Mob

    The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

    The Lavender Hill Mob

    7.11951HD

    A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country....

    The Lavender Hill Mob
  • 1957
    Night of the Demon

    Night of the Demon (1957)

    Night of the Demon

    6.91957HD

    American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cul...

    Night of the Demon
  • 1949
    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    7.61949HD

    When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family ...

    Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • 1942
    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)

    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    6.41942HD

    During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre words hid tales of death, destruction and derring-do. ...

    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
  • 1944
    The Way Ahead

    The Way Ahead (1944)

    The Way Ahead

    6.41944HD

    A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk....

    The Way Ahead
  • 1951
    No Highway in the Sky

    No Highway in the Sky (1951)

    No Highway in the Sky

    6.91951HD

    James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that ...

    No Highway in the Sky
  • 1950
    The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp (1950)

    The Blue Lamp

    6.61950HD

    P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unabl...

    The Blue Lamp
  • 1947
    It Always Rains on Sunday

    It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    6.61947HD

    During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance....

    It Always Rains on Sunday
  • 1945
    The Rake's Progress

    The Rake's Progress (1945)

    The Rake's Progress

    71945HD

    Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of swe...

    The Rake's Progress
  • 1956
    It's Great to be Young!

    It's Great to be Young! (1956)

    It's Great to be Young!

    6.21956HD

    IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismis...

    It's Great to be Young!
  • 1942
    Secret Mission

    Secret Mission (1942)

    Secret Mission

    4.21942HD

    World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis....

    Secret Mission
  • 1942
    The Young Mr. Pitt

    The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)

    The Young Mr. Pitt

    5.41942HD

    This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24....

    The Young Mr. Pitt
  • 1948
    Noose

    Noose (1948)

    Noose

    51948HD

    Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up...

    Noose
  • 1954
    Father Brown

    Father Brown (1954)

    Father Brown

    6.21954HD

    Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul....

    Father Brown
  • 1938
    It's in the Air

    It's in the Air (1938)

    It's in the Air

    5.61938HD

    George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air ...

    It's in the Air
  • 1948
    My Brother Jonathan

    My Brother Jonathan (1948)

    My Brother Jonathan

    6.71948HD

    Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brot...

    My Brother Jonathan
  • 1949
    Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution (1949)

    Witness for the Prosecution

    8.41949HD

    Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise. Not to be confused with the later Hollywood adaptation....

    Witness for the Prosecution
  • 1946
    Wanted for Murder

    Wanted for Murder (1946)

    Wanted for Murder

    6.21946HD

    The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death....

    Wanted for Murder
  • 1947
    The October Man

    The October Man (1947)

    The October Man

    6.21947HD

    Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed....

    The October Man