Leo McKern Movies

  • 1951
    Murder in the Cathedral

    Murder in the Cathedral

    Murder in the Cathedral

    6.51951HD

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

    Murder in the Cathedral
  • 1995
    Dad and Dave: On Our Selection

    Dad and Dave: On Our Selection

    Dad and Dave: On Our Selection

    51995HD

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

    Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
  • 1964
    The Horse Without a Head

    The Horse Without a Head

    The Horse Without a Head

    61964HD

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

    The Horse Without a Head
  • 1988
    The Master Builder

    The Master Builder

    The Master Builder

    01988HD

    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...

    The Master Builder
  • 1959
    The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

    The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

    The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

    5.4111959HD

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

    The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
  • 1964
    A Jolly Bad Fellow

    A Jolly Bad Fellow

    A Jolly Bad Fellow

    5.51964HD

    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...

    A Jolly Bad Fellow
  • 1987
    Travelling North

    Travelling North

    Travelling North

    5.2861987HD

    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...

    Travelling North
  • 1978
    The Nativity

    The Nativity

    The Nativity

    61978HD

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

    The Nativity
  • 1992
    The Last Romantics

    The Last Romantics

    The Last Romantics

    01992HD

    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.

    The Last Romantics
  • 1999
    Federation

    Federation

    Federation

    01999HD

    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...

    Federation
  • 1974
    The Sun Is God

    The Sun Is God

    The Sun Is God

    01974HD

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

    The Sun Is God
  • 1959
    Web of Evidence

    Web of Evidence

    Web of Evidence

    4.81959HD

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

    Web of Evidence
  • 1968
    On the Eve of Publication

    On the Eve of Publication

    On the Eve of Publication

    01968HD

    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...

    On the Eve of Publication
  • 1968
    Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher

    Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher

    Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher

    51968HD

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

    Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
  • 1982
    The Boxwallah

    The Boxwallah

    The Boxwallah

    01982HD

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

    The Boxwallah
  • 1965
    Tea Party

    Tea Party

    Tea Party

    01965HD

    Mysteries abound. What is going on between the wife and her brother? Are they indeed brother and sister? Sisson has his doubts about that … ....

    Tea Party
  • 1958
    Chain of Events

    Chain of Events

    Chain of Events

    6.31958HD

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

    Chain of Events
  • 1965
    The Drinking Party

    The Drinking Party

    The Drinking Party

    01965HD

    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...

    The Drinking Party
  • 1978
    The Last Tasmanian

    The Last Tasmanian

    The Last Tasmanian

    6.31978HD

    The story of the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigine population by British settlers. Specifically Truganini, the last living full-blood aborigine.

    The Last Tasmanian
  • 1964
    The Life of Galileo

    The Life of Galileo

    The Life of Galileo

    01964HD

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

    The Life of Galileo