John Barrett Movies

An old man travels to London from the North Country, accompanied by his son, in order to find the truth about his daughter's suicide.

A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port,...

Three children rejuvenate an old traction engine and enter it for the County Championship.

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.

A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy...

A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

A man abducts a boy after his son is taken from him by social services.

Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers...

Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in...

A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest.

A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge...

A dramatised documentary about the lives and work of the performers and administrators of a local orchestra. With the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.

Episode of The Frighteners: It was meant to be a great day out for three veterans and the male nurse. But their uneasy friendship soon became savage...

When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road through her grounds, she announces her intention to...

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky,...

Ben Packman leaves an old people's home to return to the Welsh mountains.

Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...

Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families.