Movies: John Laurie

A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork is the best way to do things....

Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in the boy's imagination or not?...

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII....

Michael Powell makes a moving return trip to the remote island of Foula, forty years after he shot his first major feature there - 'The Edge of the World (1937)'....

An amateur detective investigates a string of acid bath murders while on holiday....

The German adopted-daughter of a Belgian innkeeper is threatened with internment by him if she reveals to the British billetees that he is a spy. However, she is in love with one of them and helps them....

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act....

A colorful British documentary about the manufacturing of steel....

Dramatised account of the achievements of Glasgow's William Thomson, Lord Kelvin....

A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand....

The history of Scotland and the factors that have shaped the character of its people....

An illustrated version of Twa Corbies made as the BFI’s contribution to the Festival of Britain. Enlivened by the distinctive voice of John Laurie, and paired with Michael Rothenstein’s delightfully textured drawings. Followed by Shakespeare’s Sprin...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at how Myron Kinley and his team extinguished an out of control oil installation fire at Naft Safidi in Iran in 1951 that had been burning for 26 days....

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel"....