List of the best Oliver Johnston movies: A King in New York(1957), A Touch of Larceny(1960), The Tomb of Ligeia(1965), It!(1967), Dr. Crippen(1963), Indiscreet(1958), A Countess From Hong Kong(1967), The Three Lives of Thomasina(1964), Francis of Assisi(1961) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
UK
1957
105 Minutes
Ambassador Jaume
Charles Chaplin Dawn Addams Oliver Johnston Maxine Audley Jerry Desmonde Sidney James Joan Ingram Michael Chaplin John McLaren Phil Brown
king young boy communist queen revolutionary amusing witty new york city paris television studio television communism social commentary royalty mccarthyism rivalry rescue 1950s
A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.
Comedy
UK|USA
1960
93 Minutes
Minister
James Mason Vera Miles George Sanders Oliver Johnston William Kendall Duncan Lamont
naval officer gentleman fiancée criminal admiral amusing cheery engaging hedonistic lighthearted playful witty london love high society navy treason hoax fraud adventure
British Commander Max Easton fakes his defection to the Soviets in order to sue the slandering newspapers for the money he needs to woo a fancy American woman.
Horror
USA|UK
1965
81 Minutes
Kenrick
Vincent Price Elizabeth Shepherd John Westbrook Derek Francis Ronald Adam Oliver Johnston Penelope Lee Frank Thornton Richard Vernon Denis Gilmore
wife husband love interest young woman widower spirit creepy tense frightening emotional england graveyard abbey household tomb death remarriage secrets hypnosis supernatural
A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride.
Horror
UK
1967
96 Minutes
Curator Trimingham
Roddy McDowall Jill Haworth Paul Maxwell Aubrey Richards Ernest Clark Oliver Johnston Noel Trevarthen Ian McCulloch Richard Goolden Dorothy Frere Tom Chatto
After one of their store houses burnt down, museum director Grove and his assistant Pimm find everything destroyed - only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama, History
1963
98 Minutes
Lord Chief Justice
Donald Pleasence Coral Browne Samantha Eggar James Robertson Justice Geoffrey Toone Oliver Johnston Edward Ogden Elspeth March Douglas Bradley-Smith John Arnatt Olga Lindo
doctor wife mistress judge lawyer juror brooding gritty mellow somber courtroom london hospital house biography death of spouse murder accusation murder trial death sentence discovery
In 1910 London, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (Donald Pleasence) stands trial for the murder of his wife (Coral Browne).
Romance
UK
1958
100 Minutes
Mr. Finleigh
Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman Cecil Parker Phyllis Calvert David Kossoff Megs Jenkins Oliver Johnston Middleton Woods
actress diplomat banker wife love interest charming passionate london apartment banquet hall restaurant love triangle marriage affair nato foreign relations deception forbidden love quest 1950s
An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him...even though he's already married.
Romance
UK
1967
108 Minutes
Clark
Marlon Brando Sophia Loren Tippi Hedren Sydney Chaplin Patrick Cargill Michael Medwin Oliver Johnston John Paul Angela Scoular Margaret Rutherford Peter Bartlett
In Hong Kong, the ambassador returning to America meets the Russian countess, a refugee without a passport, who decides to hide in his cabin.
Fantasy
UK|USA
1964
97 Minutes
Mr. Dobbie
Patrick McGoohan Susan Hampshire Karen Dotrice Laurence Naismith Jean Anderson Wilfrid Brambell Finlay Currie Vincent Winter Ewan Roberts Oliver Johnston Francis De Wolff
young girl veterinarian cat free spirit assistant healer inspiring charming moving village scotland heaven human-animal friendship father/daughter relationship healing afterlife second chance love rescue transformation
Thomasina the cat brings a family together, through her mysterious death and reappearance.
Biography
USA
1961
106 Minutes
Bradford Dillman Dolores Hart Stuart Whitman Pedro Armendáriz Cecil Kellaway Eduard Franz Athene Seyler Finlay Currie Mervyn Johns Russell Napier John Welsh
god saint nun priest merchant inspiring powerful italy assisi religion catholic church canonization charity sacrifice rise metamorphosis 13th century
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.