Biography: Hay Petrie |
In films from 1930, Scottish character-actor Hay Petrie usually showed up in eccentric bit roles. Petrie's larger film assignments included the unspeakable Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop (1936) and the mentally defective John Aloysius Evan in 21 Days... more
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It's Turned out Nice Again (1941)
Tags: Comedy
Length: 80min
In this comedy, a groom's constant jealousy creates domestic turmoil for his devoted bride. More trouble comes when he buys a lot of untried material for the lingerie factory where he works as a foreman. The material proves flimsy and he is fired....
Cast: Michael Powell Conrad Veidt Valerie Hobson Deborah Kerr Esmond Knight
Tags: Romantic Adventure Spy Film
Length: 92min
The Danish freighter Helvig approaches English waters in early 1940 and, in keeping with the needs of British security, it is boarded by customs and naval officials in search of contraband cargo. Her skipper, Captain Anderson (Conrad Veidt), is...
Cast: Laurence Olivier Vivien Leigh Francis L. Sullivan
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance Drama Melodrama
Length: 75min
Laurence Olivier plays a young Londoner implicated in a brutal murder. According to the rules of British law, he is permitted 21 days of comparative freedom from the time of the first hearing to the time of trial -- provided he does not leave London....
Cast: Roy Boulting
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime Thriller
Length: 60min
In this suspense film, a tormented young man plots his revenge against his abuser. He decides that he will murder the fellow student. First he will drug the cruel lad. Then he will dump the body in a trunk and drive into the countryside where he will...
Cast: Alfred Hitchcock Robert Newton Maureen O'Hara Charles Laughton Harry Stradling Erich Pommer
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure Costume Adventure
Length: 98min
Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from Hitchcock's early British period before he left for the Hollywood studio system and David O. Selznick. In the England of the 1800s, a...
Treachery on the High Seas (1938)
Tags: Crime
Length: 68min
In this crime drama, an insurance detective goes undercover to try to bring in a jewel thief. He poses as a gangster and joins a gang. They end up stealing his passport and leaving him unable to return to the US. To get back he must pose as a crewman...
Cast: Anthony Asquith Alexander Korda
Length: 90min
Anthony Asquith evokes a vivid impression of Russia in 1916 in I Stand Condemned. The story follows handsome Russian officer Captain Ignatoff (Laurence Olivier), who is carried into a hospital in a delirious condition from severe war wounds. When he...
Tags: Drama
Length: 90min
Hay Petrie ingests the scenery as the demonic, hunchbacked Mr. Quilp in this 1935 British adaptation of Dickens' -The Old Curiosity Shop. Quilp is the wicked landlord who dominates and later ruins the lives of shopkeeper Trent (Ben Webster) and his...
Cast: Walter Summers
Length: 75min
There were so many anti-war films in the early 1930s that a reviewer for the British Suspense complained that the genre was becoming hopelessly cliched. In "Lost Patrol" fashion, the story concentrates on a small group of British soldiers, trapped in...
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