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Producer 1896 - 1975

John Baxter

Foots Cray, Kent, England, UK

Filmography

Every title this person produced

8 titles
Here Comes the Sun

Here Comes the Sun

John Baxter 1945 1h 24m 5.0

A sports reporter on the run from the police seeks to clear his name.

Dreaming

Dreaming

John Baxter 1944 1h 14m 6.0

A soldier is knocked unconscious during a train journey and has a series of bizarre dreams.

The Shipbuilders

The Shipbuilders

John Baxter 1943 1h 30m 5.0

A generation of shipbuilders is nearly wiped out by the Great Depression, but a second Great War gets them back to work.

Old Mother Riley Detective

Old Mother Riley Detective

Lance Comfort 1943 1h 20m

A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be rationed is stolen, and the police fear gangsters are planning to sell the foods on the black market.

The Common Touch

The Common Touch

John Baxter 1941 1h 44m 5.0

Upon his father's demise, a teenager quits school to manage the family business. Suspecting deceit from directors, he goes undercover as a homeless person at a hostel threatened by a company development project, uncovering secrets.

Old Mother Riley's Ghosts

John Baxter 1941 1h 22m

A charwoman comes upon a plot to steal the invention of a man who lives in a haunted house.

Old Mother Riley in Business

Old Mother Riley in Business

John Baxter 1941 1h

Shopkeeper Old Mother Riley declares war on a chain store that threatens her livelihood.

Love on the Dole

Love on the Dole

John Baxter 1941 1h 34m 6.0

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better.

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