Movies: John Turnbull

  • 1935
    The 39 Steps

    The 39 Steps (1935)

    The 39 Steps

    7.31935HD

    Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy...

    The 39 Steps
  • 1934
    The Scarlet Pimpernel

    The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

    The Scarlet Pimpernel

    6.91934HD

    18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror....

    The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • 1933
    The Private Life of Henry VIII

    The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

    The Private Life of Henry VIII

    6.31933HD

    Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be singl...

    The Private Life of Henry VIII
  • 1936
    The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss

    The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)

    The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss

    6.91936HD

    A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance....

    The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
  • 1950
    The Happiest Days of Your Life

    The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)

    The Happiest Days of Your Life

    6.31950HD

    Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling fo...

    The Happiest Days of Your Life
  • 1934
    The Rise of Catherine the Great

    The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)

    The Rise of Catherine the Great

    5.91934HD

    The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift betw...

    The Rise of Catherine the Great
  • 1945
    A Place of One's Own

    A Place of One's Own (1945)

    A Place of One's Own

    5.41945HD

    An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the...

    A Place of One's Own
  • 1935
    The Passing of the Third Floor Back

    The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935)

    The Passing of the Third Floor Back

    7.61935HD

    The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door....

    The Passing of the Third Floor Back
  • 1936
    Rembrandt

    Rembrandt (1936)

    Rembrandt

    6.71936HD

    A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons....

    Rembrandt
  • 1934
    The Night of the Party

    The Night of the Party (1934)

    The Night of the Party

    5.31934HD

    A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ......

    The Night of the Party
  • 1944
    Fanny by Gaslight

    Fanny by Gaslight (1944)

    Fanny by Gaslight

    5.71944HD

    Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother ...

    Fanny by Gaslight
  • 1934
    The Black Abbot

    The Black Abbot (1934)

    The Black Abbot

    5.31934HD

    A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man....

    The Black Abbot
  • 1940
    Return to Yesterday

    Return to Yesterday (1940)

    Return to Yesterday

    6.21940HD

    Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England....

    Return to Yesterday
  • 1936
    The Conquest of the Air

    The Conquest of the Air (1936)

    The Conquest of the Air

    4.21936HD

    This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s....

    The Conquest of the Air
  • 1934
    Lord Edgware Dies

    Lord Edgware Dies (1934)

    Lord Edgware Dies

    5.51934HD

    A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?...

    Lord Edgware Dies
  • 1932
    Murder on the Second Floor

    Murder on the Second Floor (1932)

    Murder on the Second Floor

    01932HD

    A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants......

    Murder on the Second Floor
  • 1941
    The Common Touch

    The Common Touch (1941)

    The Common Touch

    71941HD

    The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the C...

    The Common Touch
  • 1948
    Daybreak

    Daybreak (1948)

    Daybreak

    61948HD

    A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy....

    Daybreak
  • 1937
    Silver Blaze

    Silver Blaze (1937)

    Silver Blaze

    5.51937HD

    Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cu...

    Silver Blaze
  • 1938
    The Terror

    The Terror (1938)

    The Terror

    5.71938HD

    For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their...

    The Terror