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Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC FRSL was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author. Mortimer was a prolific writer for the theatre, films (starting during World War II, when he wrote scripts for the Crown Film Unit), television and radio. He also wrote fiction and was a trial attorney for more than 30 years.
Total trailers found: 37
11 April 1961
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.
15 June 1986
A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament.
01 January 1962
A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works.
24 November 1961
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
22 July 1935
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
21 June 2008
A look at the history of British B-movies.
15 May 1935
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 Royal Navy during the First World War.
22 May 1972
A dentist discovers his wife on the verge of having an affair with another man - a rival dentist
25 March 1999
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace.
29 May 1972
This play is about a couple trying to overcome the problems in making a successfull clandestine assignation.
01 January 1984
Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of their son.
19 April 1984
A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family.
27 November 1968
Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.
30 December 1980
A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.
09 April 2000
Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a knight named Don Quixote de La Mancha, decides to go on imaginary adventures along with his friend, the simple farmer Sancho Panza, who becomes his squire.
03 October 1965
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
16 December 1975
An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.
02 November 1959
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 his client confesses to killing his wife.
01 January 2013
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 fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
20 March 1961
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks.
16 September 1957
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 who, by his own admission, is guilty of murdering his wife.
02 December 1938
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the e
29 October 1959
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights.
01 October 1963
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.
25 September 1962
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 wife.
14 December 1969
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
20 March 1981
The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930s went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.
06 April 1967
Attractive Julia Swinton is a middle-aged woman. Her life went normally and without big occurrences. But through the unexplained death of a familiar young lady in a houseboat and the sudden appearance of a strange stranger, unrest and threat now break into the seemingly so peaceful everyday life of the Swinton family.
26 December 1998
This adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I.
19 July 1962
Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair.
19 June 1972
John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord. A woman fighting to save her marriage needs help from friends, but is her husband's best friend the right ally? Pip and Bob, both married, are a couple of ordinary working-class blokes in an ordinary London suburb.
25 October 1980
A docudramatisation of the 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books for publishing D.
08 April 1968
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.
12 June 1972
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 business.
