The best Hay Petrie’s 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.
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The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad
7.4/10
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.

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.

Great Expectations

Great Expectations
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/12/1946
  • Character: Uncle Pumblechook
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers
7.4/10
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 30/09/1948
  • Character: Clock Winder
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 when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.

The Spy in Black

The Spy in Black
6.9/10
  • Genre: ThrillerWar
  • Release: 03/08/1939
  • Character: Engineer
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Convoy

Convoy
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 28/09/1940
  • Character: Minesweeper Skipper
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

Q Planes

Q Planes
6.5/10
An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.

Rembrandt

Rembrandt
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/11/1936
  • Character: Jeweller (uncredited)
This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he's unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.

Contraband

Contraband
6.9/10
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.

The Guinea Pig

The Guinea Pig
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/10/1948
  • Character: Peck
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 together.

A Canterbury Tale

A Canterbury Tale
7.3/10
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

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...

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 24/04/1942
  • Character: The Burgomaster
During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre words hid tales of death, destruction and derring-do. This is the story of one such bomber crew who were shot down and the brave Dutch patriots who helped them home.

21 Days

21 Days
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/01/1940
  • Character: John Aloysius Evan
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.

Pastor Hall

Pastor Hall
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/05/1940
  • Character: Nazi Pastor
This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930's has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers (preceded by a flock of sheep). The Stormtrooper go about teaching and enforcing 'The New Order' but Pastor Hall is a kind and gentle man who won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.

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...

The Spell of Amy Nugent

The Spell of Amy Nugent
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 10/05/1941
  • Character: Cathcart
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.

Knight Without Armour

Knight Without Armour
6.7/10
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.

Secret Lives

Secret Lives
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/04/1937
  • Character: Robert Pigeon
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 to be able to stay in the country.

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