Hay Petrie Movies

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.

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 German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

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

Dramatised short about the advantages of gas appliances in the home, with music.

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a...

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...

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

During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His...

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place,...

A musical set during the French Revolution.

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a...

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary...

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

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

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally...