John Slater Movies

  • 1963
    Giants of Steam

    Giants of Steam

    Giants of Steam

    01963HD

    The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson...

    Giants of Steam
  • 1941
    Love on the Dole

    Love on the Dole

    Love on the Dole

    5.91941HD

    Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally...

    Love on the Dole
  • 1961
    Nothing Barred

    Nothing Barred

    Nothing Barred

    71961HD

    Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture,...

    Nothing Barred
  • 1953
    Strange Stories

    Strange Stories

    Strange Stories

    01953HD

    'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on...

    Strange Stories
  • 1963
    A Place to Go

    A Place to Go

    A Place to Go

    6.41963HD

    Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British...

    A Place to Go
  • 1948
    Against the Wind

    Against the Wind

    Against the Wind

    6.41948HD

    A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to...

    Against the Wind
  • 1959
    Hot Summer Night

    Hot Summer Night

    Hot Summer Night

    91959HD

    Jacko, a respected union man, is fighting for the promotion of a Jamaican colleague to chargehand, but when his daughter brings home her black...

    Hot Summer Night
  • 1957
    The Devil's Pass

    The Devil's Pass

    The Devil's Pass

    61957HD

    Bill Buckle has had a dream--he wants to buy back the family fishing boat, the Cascade, which the family had to sell years ago to pay for his...

    The Devil's Pass
  • 1952
    The Faithful City

    The Faithful City

    The Faithful City

    101952HD

    The Israeli-made Faithful City stars Jamie Smith as an American in Tel Aviv just after World War II. Smith makes the acquaintance of a group of...

    The Faithful City
  • 1943
    Millions Like Us

    Millions Like Us

    Millions Like Us

    5.61943HD

    When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a...

    Millions Like Us
  • 1944
    For Those in Peril

    For Those in Peril

    For Those in Peril

    6.1111944HD

    A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking...

    For Those in Peril
  • 1948
    Escape

    Escape

    Escape

    5.6761948HD

    A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl.

    Escape
  • 1960
    The Night We Got the Bird

    The Night We Got the Bird

    The Night We Got the Bird

    6.31960HD

    Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.

    The Night We Got the Bird
  • 1945
    Murder in Reverse

    Murder in Reverse

    Murder in Reverse

    6.71945HD

    Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an...

    Murder in Reverse
  • 1951
    The Third Visitor

    The Third Visitor

    The Third Visitor

    6.21951HD

    Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a...

    The Third Visitor
  • 1953
    The Flanagan Boy

    The Flanagan Boy

    The Flanagan Boy

    6.051953HD

    Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great...

    The Flanagan Boy
  • 1943
    Meeting the U-Boat Menace

    Meeting the U-Boat Menace

    Meeting the U-Boat Menace

    01943HD

    Instructional film to encourage seamen to join the Submarine Detection Service, using actors in main roles, but genuine training situations.

    Meeting the U-Boat Menace
  • 1942
    Unpublished Story

    Unpublished Story

    Unpublished Story

    6.51942HD

    Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.

    Unpublished Story
  • 1942
    Those Kids from Town

    Those Kids from Town

    Those Kids from Town

    101942HD

    Those Kids from Town
  • 1957
    Thark

    Thark

    Thark

    01957HD

    As legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow arranges for her large country house, Thark, to be sold to the nouveau riche Mrs Frush. Frush...

    Thark