List of the best Hay Petrie movies: Battle for Music(1945), The Old Curiosity Shop(1935), Contraband(1940), Spellbound(1941), The Great Mr. Handel(1942), A Canterbury Tale(1944), On Approval(1944), The Spy in Black(1939), The Ghost of St. Michael's(1941), Hard Steel(1942), The Ghost Goes West(1936), Cottage to Let(1941) ... ...
Drama
UK
1945
87 Minutes
Hay Petrie Joss Ambler Mavis Clarke
musician conductor music lover businessman government official emotional powerful melodramatic london concert hall england office london philharmonic orchestra world war ii blitz of london survival music perseverance quest sacrifice
A docu-drama about the troubles of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II.
Drama
UK
1935
90 Minutes
Quilp
Ben Webster Elaine Benson Hay Petrie Beatrix Thompson Gibb McLaughlin Lily Long Reginald Purdell
shop owner landlord granddaughter dwarf engaging spirited shop england debt gambling eviction pursuit pursuit 1930s
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Adventure
1940
91 Minutes
Axel Skold, Erik Skold
Conrad Veidt Valerie Hobson Hay Petrie Joss Ambler Raymond Lovell Esmond Knight Charles Victor Phoebe Kershaw Harold Warrender John Longden Eric Maturin
A ship's captain gets caught up in a German spy ring when he follows two people who stole his shore passes.
Drama
1941
75 Minutes
Mr. Catheart
Derek Farr Vera Lindsay Frederick Leister Hay Petrie Felix Aylmer Diana King W.G. Fay Winifred Davis Enid Hewitt Gibb McLaughlin Cameron Hall
Biography
UK
1942
103 Minutes
Phineas
Wilfrid Lawson Elizabeth Allan Malcolm Keen Michael Shepley Max Kirby Hay Petrie Morris Harvey A.E. Matthews Frederick Cooper Andrew Leigh Trefor Jones
A lavish period drama produced in 1942 by Lord Rank's G.H.W. Productions Ltd.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
1944
124 Minutes
Woodcock
Emeric Pressburger Eric Portman Sheila Sim John Sweet Dennis Price Esmond Knight Charles Hawtrey Hay Petrie
soldier sergeant shopkeeper criminal lighthearted suspenseful amusing cathedral england small town hotel world war ii traveling mystery friendship discovery transformation mystery pursuit 1940s
A U.S. soldier (John Sweet), a British sergeant and a London girl (Sheila Sim) see minor miracles and catch a prude (Eric Portman).
Comedy
UK
1944
80 Minutes
Landlord
Clive Brook Beatrice Lillie Googie Withers Roland Culver O.B. Clarence Lawrence Hanray Elliott Mason Hay Petrie Marjorie Rhodes Molly Munks
duke friend heiress widow american man witty amusing scotland island castle inn marriage dating scandal role reversal isolation poverty love discovery
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
War
UK
1939
82 Minutes
Engineer
Conrad Veidt Sebastian Shaw Valerie Hobson Marius Goring June Duprez Helen Haye Cyril Raymond Hay Petrie
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1941
82 Minutes
Procurator Fiscal
Will Hay Claude Hulbert Charles Hawtrey Raymond Huntley Felix Aylmer Elliott Mason John Laurie Hay Petrie Roddy Hughes Manning Whiley Derek Blomfield
science teacher headmaster schoolboy undercover agent sergeant ghost creepy amusing witty madcap thrilling engaging scotland school ancient curse school nazis murder survival suspicion
A hapless teacher named Will Lamb is hired by a grim school in Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1942
86 Minutes
Mr. Kissack
Wilfrid Lawson Betty Stockfeld John Stuart George Carney Joan Kemp-Welch James Harcourt Frank Atkinson Arthur Hambling John Turnbull Hay Petrie Mignon O'Doherty
A ruthless steelworks foreman alienates his workers and indirectly causes the death of one of his men.
Comedy
UK
1936
85 Minutes
Robert Donat Jean Parker Eugene Pallette Elsa Lanchester Ralph Bunker Patricia Hilliard Everley Gregg Morton Selten Chili Bouchier Herbert Lomas Elliott Mason
suitor pretty woman father ghost wealthy man charming eerie endearing scotland castle florida ghosts family love romance love discovery adventure 1930s
A haunted Scottish castle is dismantled and transported to Florida, bringing the family ghost along with it.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, War
1941
90 Minutes
Leslie Banks Alastair Sim John Mills Michael Wilding Carla Lehman Catherine Lacey George Cole Jeanne de Casalis Frank Cellier Muriel Aked Wally Patch
evacuee pilot tenant inventor butler wife playful engaging quirky london scotland village laboratory cottage street world war ii suspicion espionage inventions military intelligence
A British agent (Alastair Sim) foils a Nazi plot to steal an inventor's (Leslie Banks) design for a bombsight.
War
1941
83 Minutes
Clive Brook Diana Wynyard Raymond Huntley Derek Farr Joyce Howard Howard Marion-Crawford John Penrose Morland Graham Ronald Squire Gibb McLaughlin Muriel George
nazi doctor radio host wife engineer resistance fighter tense inspiring suspenseful intense gripping engaging nazi germany berlin radio station resistance subterfuge radio propaganda world war ii
A German doctor (Clive Brook), disillusioned with Nazi propaganda and philosophies, creates a secret radio-feed condemning the movement.
Biography
UK
1942
96 Minutes
Anna Neagle Robert Newton Edward Chapman Nora Swinburne Brefni O'Rorke Charles Carson Martita Hunt Anthony Shaw Eliot Makeham David Horne Miles Malleson
aviatrix aviator husband wife solicitor government official emotional gripping rousing thrilling england house airplane amy johnson marriage flying husband/wife relationship fame world war ii rise
The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was ... See full summary »