John Harlow

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Delayed Action

Delayed Action

1954

Director

5.2
Directing

Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they co...

Dangerous Cargo

Dangerous Cargo

1954

Director

5.2
Directing

Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shi...

The Blue Parrot

The Blue Parrot

1953

Director

5.3
Directing

'Rocks' Owen, the well-off owner of a car-hire business, is found murdered; the last place he was seen alive was the Blue Parrot nightclub. Scotland ...

Alf's Baby

Alf's Baby

1953

Producer

Producing

Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.

Those People Next Door

Those People Next Door

1953

Director

4.7
Directing

The Twiggs are a typical working-class family: Sam (Jack Warner) and Mary (Marjorie Rhodes) are trying to bring their family up in the shadow of the B...

Old Mother Riley, Headmistress

Old Mother Riley, Headmistress

1950

Director, Writer

4.7
Directing Writing

The 13th film in the Old Mother Riley series.

Old Mother Riley's New Venture

Old Mother Riley's New Venture

1949

Director

9.0
Directing

Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.

While I Live

While I Live

1947

Director, Writer

6.6
Directing Writing

In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to ...

Green Fingers

Green Fingers

1947

Director

6.0
Directing

A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is beli...

Appointment with Crime

Appointment with Crime

1946

Director, Writer

5.9
Directing Writing

Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing...

The Echo Murders

The Echo Murders

1945

Director, Writer

4.5
Directing Writing

Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.

Meet Sexton Blake

Meet Sexton Blake

1945

Director, Writer

5.5
Directing Writing

The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man kille...

The Agitator

The Agitator

1945

Director

6.0
Directing

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young...

Candles at Nine

Candles at Nine

1944

Director, Screenplay

5.0
Directing Writing

A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has...

Headline

Headline

1943

Director

5.5
Directing

A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.

The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower

1943

Director

6.1
Directing

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

This Was Paris

This Was Paris

1942

Director

5.5
Directing

British agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.

The Spell of Amy Nugent

The Spell of Amy Nugent

1941

Director

5.0
Directing

A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of spiritualists.

A Royal Divorce

A Royal Divorce

1938

Assistant Director

Directing

The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.

Command Performance

Command Performance

1937

Assistant Director

6.5
Directing

Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Stre...

The King of Paris

1934

Assistant Director

Directing

Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame threa...

My Lucky Star

1933

Director

Directing

'Shopgirl posing as film star loves porter posing as artist.' (British Film Catalogue)

Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat

1933

Adaptation

5.0

An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on th...

Dreyfus

Dreyfus

1931

Editor, Assistant Director

Directing

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into t...

Two Worlds

Two Worlds

1930

as Corporal

Acting

An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.

Atlantic

Atlantic

1929

Assistant Director

4.9
Directing

English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic"....

The Informer

The Informer

1929

Assistant Director

6.3
Directing

A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.