Hay Petrie Movies

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights...

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

During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of...

A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

A musical set during the French Revolution.

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.