Hay Petrie Movies

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

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

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

Michael, war correspondent in Spain, loves a Spanish girl. He wants them to return to England, but her father is unwilling to go. In the meantime...

Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to...

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

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

A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.

Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks...

A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to...

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,...

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

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

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