Hay Petrie

Hay Petrie

Birthday: 1895-07-16

Place of Birth: Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK

Biography: No biography available.

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The Wandering Jew
The Wandering Jew

Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvar...

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The Queen's Affair
The Queen's Affair

Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of ...

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Colonel Blood
Colonel Blood

'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)...

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Jamaica Inn
Jamaica Inn

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the rem...

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The Queen of Spades
The Queen of Spades

A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul ...

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Noose
Noose

Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempt...

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Contraband
Contraband

During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spie...

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Crimes at the Dark House
Crimes at the Dark House

In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in...

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Forget Me Not
Forget Me Not

A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gen...

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The Conquest of the Air
The Conquest of the Air

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archiva...

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Moscow Nights
Moscow Nights

During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha...

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The Voice Within
The Voice Within

Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is f...

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Hard Steel
Hard Steel

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

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For You Alone
For You Alone

Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn b...

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Do Not Forget About Me
Do Not Forget About Me

This rare 1935 film (the title translated means "do not forget me") features Beniamino Gigli as, of ...

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The Thief of Bagdad
The Thief of Bagdad

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with th...

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Pastor Hall
Pastor Hall

The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of S...

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Inquest
Inquest

A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is det...

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On Approval
On Approval

Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When o...

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Gipsy Blood
Gipsy Blood

In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this fi...

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Rush Hour
Rush Hour

The British government tries to persuade people not to clog up the wartime (World War II) public tra...

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Freedom Radio
Freedom Radio

Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when ...

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The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of d...

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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Kiss the Bride Goodbye

Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interfer...

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The Private Life of Henry VIII
The Private Life of Henry VIII

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne B...

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A Canterbury Tale
A Canterbury Tale

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbu...

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Q Planes
Q Planes

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team u...

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The Spy in Black
The Spy in Black

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet....

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The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle....

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Crime on the Hill
Crime on the Hill

In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that t...

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Matinee Idol
Matinee Idol

A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sis...

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Crimson Dynasty
Crimson Dynasty

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Lan...

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Song of the Plough
Song of the Plough

'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.'...

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Convoy
Convoy

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America a...

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21 Days Together
21 Days Together

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested fo...

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Ten Days in Paris
Ten Days in Paris

Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in ...

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Night Birds
Night Birds

Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted th...

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The House of the Spaniard
The House of the Spaniard

A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone...

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Knight Without Armour
Knight Without Armour

British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. ...

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Invitation to the Waltz
Invitation to the Waltz

As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England ...

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Suspense
Suspense

During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the German...

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Secret Lives
Secret Lives

A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has...

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The Two Frightened Ladies
The Two Frightened Ladies

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

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The Spell of Amy Nugent
The Spell of Amy Nugent

A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he...

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Design for Murder
Design for Murder

When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow ...

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I Give My Heart
I Give My Heart

The Loves of Madame du Barry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, ba...

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They Flew Alone
They Flew Alone

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in t...

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Quiet Wedding
Quiet Wedding

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day....

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Turned Out Nice Again
Turned Out Nice Again

George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddl...

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The Ghost of St. Michael's
The Ghost of St. Michael's

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The...

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Cottage to Let
Cottage to Let

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hosp...

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Nell Gwyn
Nell Gwyn

King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become clo...

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Great Expectations
Great Expectations

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefa...

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The Lucky Number
The Lucky Number

A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket....

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Many Waters
Many Waters

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

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The Monkey's Paw
The Monkey's Paw

A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaste...

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Spy for a Day
Spy for a Day

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to ...

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The Guinea Pig
The Guinea Pig

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experimen...

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The Fallen Idol
The Fallen Idol

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His percepti...

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Peg of Old Drury
Peg of Old Drury

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

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The Shipbuilders
The Shipbuilders

A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding...

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The Ghost Goes West
The Ghost Goes West

Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch,...

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They Met in the Dark
They Met in the Dark

A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into...

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The Laughing Lady
The Laughing Lady

A musical set during the French Revolution....

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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. ...

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Night Boat to Dublin
Night Boat to Dublin

British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist....

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Sabotage at Sea
Sabotage at Sea

The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the...

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Midnight Taxi
Midnight Taxi

A London cabby uncovers the city's secret nightlife in this surprising plug for post-war National Sa...

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Blind Justice
Blind Justice

When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to re...

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Rembrandt
Rembrandt

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600...

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Consider Your Verdict
Consider Your Verdict

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

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Men of Yesterday
Men of Yesterday

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

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Shipyard Sally
Shipyard Sally

A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. ...

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The Great Mr Handel
The Great Mr Handel

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal angu...

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The Last Barricade
The Last Barricade

Michael, war correspondent in Spain, loves a Spanish girl. He wants them to return to England, but h...

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