Hay Petrie Movies

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.

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 t...

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

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 spiritualists.

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, lur...

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 actr...

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 aro...

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

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

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 g...

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfe...

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 comp...

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

A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.

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

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

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 working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes tog...

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes...

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