Hay Petrie Movies

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

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

This rare 1935 film (the title translated means "do not forget me") features Beniamino Gigli as, of course, an Italian singer who warbles his way...

A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.

King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent...

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

Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social...

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 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...

A short featurette about a murderer summoned by chance to sit on the jury and try the man accused of his crime.

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 man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence...

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

Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is fleeing from the IRA, to move to the USA. But...

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

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...

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

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