John Abbott Movies

A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord,...

Merchant seaman Archie Gibbs manages to survive when his ship is torpedoed by a German submarine. Disguising himself in the uniform of a dead Nazi...

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

A man searching for a stolen army payroll is joined by several men after the reward money.

Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but...

An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.

Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After...

Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do....

When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it. The police...

Portrays the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman soldier Longinus through the teachings of Jesus in his Parable of the...

A satirical film on fads in the US. A TV host on a late night show tries to convince his viewers that they should return to Rome and Roman ways.

Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made ruler.

Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in...

A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He...

When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.

A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who...

A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.

During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for...

A former journalist begins to experience distressing flashbacks, to the alarm of people close to him.