John Mortimer Movies

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

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...

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...

Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.

Film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, 'Mary'.

John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord.

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

German adaptation of The Dock Brief

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...

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.