John Longden Movies

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying...

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved...

Adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the secret of a wealthy businessman.

A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into...

Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.

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

A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.

Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.

Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps...

A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.

A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a...

A British crime film directed by John Longden

'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)

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 story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending...

Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a...