John Standing Movies

Four men involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of World War II are found murdered with tiny dolls beside their corpses.

London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas...

A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both...

It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the...

Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of...

When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends...

The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that...

Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap...

The Rabbit is the world's belling-selling vibrator. In the past year alone, millions have been sold all over the globe. Now experts are warning the...

Winston Churchill understood the power of films, but the true extent of his use of cinema as a propaganda tool is rarely explored. In 1934, one of...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

A fallen WWI American soldier strikes a divine bargain to reunite with his bride in England. As he resumes life unaware he's a ghost, love and loss...

American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she...

An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.

The Queen's Messenger is called to convey vital dispatches to a highly secretive conference called to combat the activities of modern poachers who...

A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly blossoms into a full blown romance, until she...

She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds...

A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events...

The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian...

1956/57 - This episode reflects the Kim Philby spy affair.