John Mortimer Movies

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the...

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...

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...

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

A happily married couple divorce for tax purposes, but their lawyer, not knowing the real reason for their divorce, falls in love with the wife.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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.