Hay Petrie Movies

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

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...

During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.

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,...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

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