Filmography › John Laurie
All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring John Laurie, ranked
At a London music hall theatre, Richard Hannay is watching a demonstration of the superlative powers of recall of Mr. Memory when shots are fired. When he sees police searching the train, he enters a compartment and starts kissing the sole occupant, Pamela, in a desperate attempt to escape detection.
The action begins on the battlements of Elsinore where a sentry, Francisco, is relieved of his watch by another sentry, Bernardo, who, with yet another sentry, Marcellus, has twice previously seen the Ghost of King Hamlet. Marcellus then arrives with the skeptical Horatio, Prince Hamlet’s friend. Suddenly, all three see the Ghost, and Horatio demands that the ghost speak. The ghost vanishes then, without a word.
After her father’s demise, a young British heiress moves in with her financially struggling guardian uncle. Little does she know, he devises a plot to kill her in order to inherit her substantial wealth.