John Mortimer Movies

Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's...

These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when...

An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an...

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.

This hilarious one-act play by John Mortimer (creator of Rumpole of the Bailey) is the story of a highly incompetent lawyer preparing to defend a man...

A look at the history of British B-movies.

A young salesman from Trinidad tries to sell a complete set of encyclopedia to Sally Louth, a housewife living on the Chelsea-Fulham border in London.

German adaptation of The Dock Brief