List of the best John Mills movies: Ice Cold in Alex(1958), Tiger Bay(1959), Swiss Family Robinson(1960), Scott of the Antarctic(1948), The October Man(1947), Dunkirk(1958), Operation Disaster(1951), The Valiant(1962), The Wrong Box(1966), The Green Cockatoo(1937), Flame in the Streets(1961), Mr. Denning Drives North(1953) ... ...
7.8/10
War
UK
1958
132 Minutes
soldier nurse captain driver nun spy brooding suspenseful melodramatic north africa ambulance bar car desert journey espionage secret identity world war ii military discovery
During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.
7.5/10
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1959
105 Minutes
young girl murderer detective street urchin sailor witness suspenseful shocking dark melodramatic cardiff, wales tenement house police station street church witnessing murder investigation conspiracy unlikely friendship deception
A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
7.2/10
Kids & Family, Adventure
USA
1960
128 Minutes
John Mills Dorothy McGuire James MacArthur Janet Munro Sessue Hayakawa Tommy Kirk Kevin Corcoran Cecil Parker
mother father son pirate amusing endearing playful island ocean switzerland beach shipwreck survival family adventure discovery 1810s
A Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
7.1/10
Drama, History
UK
1948
110 Minutes
Captain R.F. Scott R.N.
John Mills Derek Bond Harold Warrender James Robertson Justice Kenneth More Christopher Lee
explorer doctor wife sled dog crew member rival bleak brutal striking suspenseful inspiring south pole wilderness home tundra camp survival expedition exploration affliction
The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole.
7.1/10
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1947
86 Minutes
John Mills Joan Greenwood Edward Chapman Joyce Carey Kay Walsh Felix Aylmer Juliet Mills
scientist doctor girlfriend boss boarder landlady dark gritty uneasy england bus hospital boardinghouse park memory murder investigation mental illness romance mystery
When the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.
7.0/10
War
UK
1958
135 Minutes
Binns
John Mills Richard Attenborough Bernard Lee Robert Urquhart Ray Jackson Meredith Edwards Anthony Nicholls Michael Shillo Sean Barrett Victor Maddern Maxine Audley
soldier reporter emotional intense powerful france beach world war ii historical events rescue escape sacrifice quest 1930s
A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.
7.0/10
Action
UK
1951
102 Minutes
John Mills Richard Attenborough Nigel Patrick Helen Cherry Lana Morris Andrew Crawford Michael Brennan James Hayter Wylie Watson Giacomo Rossi-Stuart Victor Maddern
captain lieutenant seaman medic diver tense patriotic sad submarine ocean survival naval warfare world war ii submarine rescue quest 1940s
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
6.9/10
Drama, Action, War
UK|Italy
1962
80 Minutes
John Mills Ettore Manni Roberto Risso Robert Shaw Liam Redmond Ralph Michael Colin Douglas Dinsdale Landen John Meillon Patrick Barr
During World War II, two Italian frogmen, who placed magnetic mines under a British warship, are captured and interrogated by British intelligence about their mission.
6.8/10
Comedy
UK
1966
105 Minutes
John Mills Ralph Richardson Michael Caine Nanette Newman Peter Cook Dudley Moore Tony Hancock Peter Sellers Cicely Courtneidge Wilfrid Lawson Thorley Walters
student brother butler foster daughter strangler nephew madcap hilarious london train household lottery family dysfunction rivalry 1890s
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so.
6.8/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
65 Minutes
Jim Connor
John Mills Rene Ray Robert Newton Charles Oliver Bruce Seton Julian Vedey Allan Jeayes Frank Atkinson
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
6.7/10
Drama
UK
1961
93 Minutes
John Mills Sylvia Syms Brenda De Banzie Earl Cameron Johnny Sekka Ann Lynn Wilfrid Brambell Meredith Edwards Newton Blick Glyn Houston Michael Wynne
union boss west indian daughter spirited intricate gutsy united kingdom bonfire racial issues racial tension racism interracial relationship discovery escape transformation 1960s
During the 1960s in Britain, tense race relations between whites and blacks are affecting the workplace, the family, the dating scene, and the society at large.
6.7/10
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1953
93 Minutes
Tom Denning
John Mills Phyllis Calvert Eileen Moore Sam Wanamaker Herbert Lom Raymond Huntley Russell Waters Wilfrid Hyde-White Freda Jackson Trader Faulkner
manufacturer daughter boyfriend wife lawyer chilling tense great britain countryside woods airplane unlikely criminal conscience accidental death cover-up deception investigation escape discovery forbidden love
A British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's nasty foreign boyfriend and then tries to cover up his deed.
6.6/10
Adventure
UK
1955
99 Minutes
Cmdr. Fraser
John Mills John Gregson Donald Sinden James Robertson Justice Michael Medwin James Kenney
commander lieutenant admiral captain officer bleak confident emotional gripping norway england fjord sea world war ii quest pursuit revenge 1940s
The attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during World War II.
6.6/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1945
76 Minutes
Jim Colter
John Mills Stewart Granger Alastair Sim Joy Shelton Alison Leggatt Beatrice Varley
soldier draft dodger wife doctor ex-girlfriend air raid warden spirited cheeky engaging intense heartwarming london train station air-raid shelter office street household world war ii marriage deception
A drama set during World War II. A tale of adultery and desertion.
6.4/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1955
87 Minutes
John Mills Yvonne Mitchell Alastair Sim Jeremy Spenser Andrew Ray Marie Lohr Peter Asher
pacifist wife son brother headmaster endearing madcap cheeky outlandish england school airplane political activism career vs. family unhappy marriage juvenile crime idealism growing up love 1950s
This movie concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his "causes" he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on... See full summary »
6.4/10
Drama
UK
1969
100 Minutes
The Moorman
John Mills Mark Lester Sylvia Syms Gordon Jackson Bernard Mills Fiona Fullerton
young boy father mother ex-soldier horse uplifting touching dreamy spirited devonshire, england family home moor psychosomatic illness horses unusual friendship mentorship loneliness accident rescue transformation
Philip Ransome, a northern English boy about ten-years-old, has been mute since age three and spends his days roaming the moors alone. His parents despair of a cure. One day, he sees a ... See full summary »
6.2/10
Drama
UK
1952
86 Minutes
Terence Sullivan
ira agent brother irishman police officer friend intense brooding suspenseful belfast, northern ireland cottage london countryside irish republican army brotherhood terrorism moral dilemma doubt political unrest discovery transformation
In 1941, in wartime U.K., two Irish brothers working for the I.R.A. come against their local leader's ruthless methods.
5.7/10
Drama, Romance
UK
1935
72 Minutes
Robert Miller
John Mills Austin Melford Mark Lester Norah Howard Robertson Hare Grete Mosheim Margaret Withers Paul Graetz Glennis Lorimer Jack Hobbs Hay Plumb
A pretty young factory worker is window-shopping at a Rolls-Royce dealership, and dreamily mentions that she would love to have a car like that. The son of the factory's owner happens to be... See full summary »
5.5/10
Comedy
UK
1956
96 Minutes
Puncher Roberts
John Mills Richard Attenborough Bryan Forbes Harold Siddons Clifford Mollison Lionel Jeffries Gordon Jackson Michael Howard Michael Hordern Ernest Clark John Forbes-Robertson
sailor friend baby witty amusing naples, italy boat ship coast baby-sitting sailing sailors comedy smuggling adventure escape pursuit 20th century
After a pierside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White (Sir Richard Attenborough) finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it ... See full summary »
War
1945
109 Minutes
John Mills Michael Redgrave Rosamund John Douglass Montgomery Renee Asherson Stanley Holloway Basil Radford Felix Aylmer
pilot wife friend american officer airman confident emotional solemn england air force base village hotel household airplane hangar world war ii air force home front death family
Musical, Comedy
1956
92 Minutes
Mr. Dingle
teacher headmaster classmate jazz musician airy amusing emotional inspiring charming heartwarming school music stage jazz club classroom pub jazz piano music education strike passion
British students rally round a teacher (John Mills) fired by the new headmaster (Cecil Parker) for buying musical instruments.
Mystery & Thriller
1957
96 Minutes
John Mills Charles Coburn Barbara Bates Magda Miller
scotland yard agent constable wealthy man suspect sexy woman wife suspenseful england small town country club tennis court forest investigation murder wealth class distinctions small-town life scandal mystery 1950s
When a young British girl is murdered, Scotland Yard snoops around a small town and comes up with a fistful of suspects.
Drama, War
1959
101 Minutes
John Mills Cecil Parker M.E. Clifton-James Patrick Allen Patrick Holt Leslie Phillips Michael Hordern Marius Goring Barbara Hicks Duncan Lamont Anthony Sagar
gen. bernard montgomery actor colonel soldier governor german troops charming fascinating positive gripping africa gibraltar london heroism war deception world war ii adventure escape transformation
British intelligence officers (John Mills, Cecil Parker) plan to trick the Nazis by having an officer/actor (M.E. Clifton-James) pose as Gen. Montgomery.
7.7/10
Comedy
UK
1954
107 Minutes
Willie Mossop
Charles Laughton John Mills Brenda De Banzie Daphne Anderson Prunella Scales Richard Wattis
daughter shoemaker widower cheeky hysterical quirky england pub shop family marriage competition father/daughter relationship rivalry escape love victorian era
Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) is a successful bootmaker, a widower and a tyrannical father of three daughters. The girls each want to leave their father by getting married, but Henry refuses because marriage traditions require him to pay out settlements.
7.5/10
Drama
UK
1960
106 Minutes
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow
Alec Guinness John Mills Susannah York Dennis Price John Fraser Allan Cuthbertson Kay Walsh Gordon Jackson Duncan Macrae Keith Faulkner Peter McEnery
commanding officer officer soldier rival daughter girlfriend gripping emotional tense scotland barracks battalion class conflict military authority suicide rivalry forbidden love 1940s
After World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.
7.2/10
War, Drama
UK
1942
114 Minutes
Ordinary Seaman Shorty Blake
Noel Coward Noel Coward John Mills Bernard Miles Celia Johnson Kay Walsh Joyce Carey Michael Wilding James Donald Richard Attenborough
captain military officer sailor wife mother heartwarming patriotic ship military base london egypt world war ii quest escape 1930s
This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
6.7/10
War
UK
1943
98 Minutes
Lt. Taylor
Eric Portman John Mills Leslie Weston Reginald Purdell Niall MacGinnis Joan Hopkins Josephine Wilson Louis Bradfield Ronald Millar Jack Watling Caven Watson
commanding officer sailor military officer enemy resistance fighter patriotic underwater military base england denmark world war ii submarine military engagement chase pursuit escape 1940s
All leave is cancelled so that a British submarine can be sent after a new German warship. They chase it so far that they have no fuel to get home.
6.5/10
Romance
UK|USA
1965
102 Minutes
Tommy Tyler
Hayley Mills John Mills James MacArthur Lionel Jeffries Harry Andrews Niall MacGinnis Lionel Murton David Tomlinson
widower sailor lawyer millionaire uncle thrilling endearing spirited caribbean boat ocean island beach treasure hunting betrayal con game new romance greed father/daughter relationship adventure
During the 1960s, a Caribbean sailor and his tomboy daughter search for buried treasure but run into unsavory characters and a cute lawyer who's after romance.
6.4/10
Western
UK
1961
129 Minutes
Father Michael Keogh
Dirk Bogarde John Mills Mylène Demongeot Laurence Naismith John Bentley Leslie French
catholic priest bandit parishioner atheist villager charming confident endearing rousing mexico village church home religious persecution religious beliefs atheism unlikely friendship respect forbidden love pursuit
In a small Mexican town, a Catholic priest (Sir John Mills) and a local bandit (Sir Dirk Bogarde) clash, but the brave priest ultimately wins the outlaw's respect.
6.3/10
Adventure
UK
1935
69 Minutes
Albert Brown
Betty Balfour Walter Forde John Mills Barry MacKay Jimmy Hanley Howard Marion-Crawford H. G. Stoker
In 1914, after a German warship picks-up survivors from a sinking British warship it undergoes repairs off a deserted island but it faces sabotage attempts and attacks from one of the escaped rescued sailors.
5.8/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1962
100 Minutes
captain stockbroker businessman lieutenant beautiful woman amusing melodramatic cool cheeky england tahiti hotel town island scam island life black market expatriates love triangle business scheme
James Mason and Sir John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough Colonel and a refined Captain who clashed during the war, and continue their personal battle in peacetime Tahiti.
5.4/10
Adventure
UK|USA
1967
109 Minutes
Hugh O'Brian John Mills Nigel Green Tom Nardini Adrienne Corri Ronald Howard Charles Malinda Honey Wamala Charles Hayes Stephen Kikumu Ali Twaha
cowboy rancher commander nurse sidekick love interest rousing spirited thrilling africa kenya village ranch starvation helping others cattle wildlife sabotage romance adventure
An American cowboy is hired to work on a ranch in Africa, and winds up having to fight predators, the four and two-legged kinds.
Mystery & Thriller
1976
88 Minutes
Colonel Bertie Cook
Donald Pleasence John Mills Barbara Hershey David Birney Margaret Leighton Peter Cushing John Bindon Una Brandon-Jones Keith Buckley Peter Childs Brian Coburn
A former policeman thinks an organization which recreates medieval battles may be linked to a series of murders.
Action
1975
95 Minutes
George Kennedy John Mills Raf Vallone Arthur Franz Rita Tushingham Frank Avianca Haydée Politoff Thomas Hunter Barry Sullivan Fiamma Verges Danny Houston
A NATO planner (George Kennedy) in Italy uses a computer to hunt the terrorists who have killed his family.
7.3/10
Drama
UK|USA
1964
106 Minutes
Maitland
Deborah Kerr Hayley Mills John Mills Edith Evans Felix Aylmer Elizabeth Sellars Lally Bowers Tonie MacMillan
wealthy woman ex-convict governess granddaughter butler judge disturbing emotional engaging family home england secret past troubled youth gardening gossip second chance discovery rivalry transformation 1960s
An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed and spoiled teenage granddaughter, who eventually understands the meaning of self-sacrifice, as an example of love, and grows into a better person.
7.3/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1967
115 Minutes
Ezra Fitton
Hayley Mills Hywel Bennett John Mills Marjorie Rhodes Avril Angers John Comer Wilfred Pickles Barry Foster Liz Fraser Andy Bradford Thorley Walters
newlywed husband wife mother-in-law father-in-law best friend witty charming engaging manchester, england neighborhood pub family home marriage honeymoon in-laws coming of age relationships family love
Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, whose marriage has yet to be consummated.
7.3/10
Drama
UK
1949
91 Minutes
Bassett
Valerie Hobson John Howard Davies John Mills Ronald Squire Hugh Sinclair Charles Goldner Susan Richards
boy mother father gardener dark eerie intense sad racetrack house bedroom england greed gambling family poverty horse racing growing up sacrifice wretched excess
A young boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas and soon learns that he is able to pick the winning horse at the races.
6.6/10
Drama
UK|USA
1955
106 Minutes
Albert Parkis
Deborah Kerr Van Johnson John Mills Peter Cushing Michael Goodliffe Stephen Murray Charles Goldner Nora Swinburne
writer wife priest detective lover husband melodramatic suspenseful family home inn apartment london adultery god love triangle world war ii disillusionment bombing forbidden love sacrifice
In WW2 London, a writer falls in-love with the wife of a British civil servant but both men suspect her of infidelity with yet another man.
6.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1973
108 Minutes
Cleon Doyle
George C. Scott Faye Dunaway John Mills Jack Palance Bill Lucking Harvey Jason Ted Gehring Cliff Osmond Rafael Campos Woodrow Parfrey John Hudkins
businessman woman fighter father love interest friend spirited engaging amusing confident offbeat oklahoma oil well abuse of power territorial disputes oil business determination land dispute greed discovery
In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle (Faye Dunaway), aided by her father (Sir John Mills) and a hobo (George C. Scott), is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.
6.3/10
Western
USA
1967
105 Minutes
Col. Stuart Valois
Rod Taylor Ernest Borgnine John Mills Luciana Paluzzi James Whitmore Angela Dorian Louis Hayward Michael Cole Hugh Reilly Barry O'Hara Joe Sirola
gunslinger aristocrat niece colonel native american sergeant fiery rousing spectacular fort united states military redemption battle reunion siege violence love transformation 1870s
While Indians besiege a U.S. Army fort in 1876, residents of the fort, a gunfighter, a stagecoach driver, two Mexican women, and a motley company of soldiers, try to come to terms with their pasts.
5.8/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1933
68 Minutes
Ernest Elton
Henry Kendall Ida Lupino John Mills Victor Stanley George Merritt Felix Aylmer
chemist amateur sleuth young woman detective coroner maid suspenseful chilling gripping engaging tense melodramatic england seaside murder investigation amateur detectives photograph search jewelry theft missing persons
As part of Rainey's circus, Dad Denton returns to the town where he is supposedly wanted for murder. When his old enemy McDonald spots him with out his clown makeup, he sets his men up to ... See full summary »
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, War
1941
90 Minutes
Flt-Lieut. George Perry
Leslie Banks Alastair Sim John Mills Michael Wilding Carla Lehman Catherine Lacey George Cole Jeanne de Casalis Frank Cellier Muriel Aked Wally Patch
evacuee pilot tenant inventor butler wife playful engaging quirky london scotland village laboratory cottage street world war ii suspicion espionage inventions military intelligence
A British agent (Alastair Sim) foils a Nazi plot to steal an inventor's (Leslie Banks) design for a bombsight.
Comedy, Drama
1959
93 Minutes
Barney
Ernest Borgnine Anne Baxter John Mills Angela Lansbury Ethel Gabriel Vincent Ball Janette Craig
girlfriend widow farmer worker husband melodramatic emotional australia farm sydney love triangle vacation unemployment affair long-distance relationship maturing growing up love 1950s
Two laid-off Australian sugar-cane cutters (Ernest Borgnine, John Mills) spend their 17th summer with their girlfriends in Sydney.
Drama
1944
115 Minutes
Billy Mitchell
Robert Newton Celia Johnson John Mills Kay Walsh Stanley Holloway Amy Veness Alison Leggatt
travel agent wife mother-in-law sister-in-law socialist child cheeky melodramatic emotional england suburbia household working class war family growing up love transformation 1930s
An adaptation of Noel Coward's play traces a number of years in the life of a middle-class London family.
7.9/10
Drama
UK
1939
114 Minutes
Peter Colley
Robert Donat Greer Garson Terry Kilburn John Mills Paul Henreid Judith Furse Lyn Harding Milton Rosmer Frederick Leister Louise Hampton Austin Trevor
teacher suffragette friend student heartwarming boarding school classroom england austria school love war transformation growing up 1930s
An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
6.6/10
Drama, War
UK
1965
116 Minutes
Gen. Boyd
Sophia Loren George Peppard Trevor Howard John Mills Richard Johnson Tom Courtenay Jeremy Kemp Anthony Quayle Lilli Palmer Paul Henreid Helmut Dantine
lieutenant woman spy prime minister general colonel suspenseful intense germany london holland underground world war ii special ops espionage military working undercover quest sacrifice 1940s
Allied agents attempt to infiltrate the Nazis' rocket research site.
5.6/10
Drama, History
UK|Italy
1972
123 Minutes
Canning
Sarah Miles Jon Finch Richard Chamberlain John Mills Margaret Leighton Ralph Richardson Laurence Olivier
noblewoman nobleman couple poet lover brooding emotional passionate tense manor england loveless marriage affair forbidden love fall temptation 19th century
A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.
7.7/10
Documentary
UK
2010
86 Minutes
Jack Cardiff Martin Scorsese Kirk Douglas Lauren Bacall John Mills Thelma Schoonmaker Kim Hunter Kathleen Byron Christopher Challis Raffaella De Laurentiis Richard Fleischer
martin scorsese editor charlton heston lauren bacall cinematographer director engaging inspiring spirited striking london hollywood, calif. studio art gallery film set cinematography filmmaking innovation jack cardiff art
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette ... See full summary »
7.4/10
Drama
UK
1970
206 Minutes
Michael
Robert Mitchum Sarah Miles Christopher Jones Trevor Howard John Mills Leo McKern Barry Foster Arthur O'Sullivan Marie Kean Evin Crowley Barry Jackson
teacher wife british soldier bar owner villager melodramatic emotional thrilling suspenseful touching passionate ireland bar dublin village affair trust betrayal war violence
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
5.3/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1978
102 Minutes
Scudder
Robert Powell David Warner Karen Dotrice Eric Porter John Mills George Baker Ronald Pickup Donald Pickering Timothy West Miles Anderson Andrew Keir
engineer spy pretty woman secret agent suspenseful engaging london apartment scotland train big ben espionage conspiracy fugitives secret society murder adventure pursuit mystery 1910s
A ski-masked maniac kills apartment complex tenants with the contents of a toolbox.
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