Leo McKern Movies

Travelling North tells the story of Frank, a crotchety old man with an unending zest and passion for life and Frances his much younger companion...

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.

A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.

A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.

A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being...

An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at...

An epic tale about the making of Australia. This tells the stories of the founding fathers and of the people in six separate colonies in the decades...

Edwin and Nancy Coote live in a dingy flat in Kensington, but still live in the reflected glory of the Indian Raj.

An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love...

An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.

Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to...

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.

Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of...

A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party.

An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.

Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament

Ahead of a screening of his latest film a director converses with a prostitute, whilst his female star and estranged wife talks to a writer, his...

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

In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked...