Hay Petrie Movies

a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.

George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and...

An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him....

A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the...

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is...

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of...

The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.

A musical set during the French Revolution.

'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)

A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order...

In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper...

A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.

A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she...

In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich...

When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad,...

A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.

The British government tries to persuade people not to clog up the wartime (World War II) public transportation system by keeping its use to a...

A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.

'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)