Leo McKern Movies

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.

TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion is a dinner party, Kelvin is concerned with a...

The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.

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

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

In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the...

Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.

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

Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents...

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

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...

An angel, present at the birth of Jesus, returns to Earth each year to listen to the Christmas carols and these carols are illustrated in short...

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 aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.

When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.

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...

A modernized depiction. In his last few hours alive, Socrates discusses life, death, and the soul.