Hay Petrie Movies

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

A London cabby uncovers the city's secret nightlife in this surprising plug for post-war National Savings.

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

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 musical set during the French Revolution.

In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his...

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

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

Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country. On her arrival in...

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...

A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them...

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

The Loves of Madame du Barry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The Du Barry. German...

'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute)

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...

An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.

Michael, war correspondent in Spain, loves a Spanish girl. He wants them to return to England, but her father is unwilling to go. In the meantime...

A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.

When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for...

Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps....