The best Hay Petrie’s crime movies

Hay Petrie

Hay Petrie

16/07/1895- 30/07/1948
Today we present the best Hay Petrie’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Hay Petrie’s movies.

Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn
6.3/10
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an inkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.

Noose

Noose
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/09/1948
  • Character: the barber
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...

Inquest

Inquest
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 01/12/1939
  • Character: Stephen Neale
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 the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is eventually found innocent.

Design for Murder

Design for Murder
6.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 27/03/1939
  • Character: Old Dan
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, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...

Crimes at the Dark House

Crimes at the Dark House
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/03/1940
  • Character: Dr. Isidor Fosco
A madman kills a man who has just inherited a large estate, then impersonates his victim to gain entrance to the estate so he can murder his enemies.

The House of the Spaniard

The House of the Spaniard
5.4/10
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…

Crime on the Hill

Crime on the Hill
6.6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 27/12/1933
  • Character: Jevons
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.

The Lucky Number

The Lucky Number
5.5/10
A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.

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