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...

Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true...

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

'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...

A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.

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 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.

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