Hay Petrie — Actor (9)
Turned Out Nice Again (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Turned Out Nice Again
director: Marcel Varnel actor: George Formby / Peggy Bryan
other title: Georges roi de la mode / Glück muß man haben
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
Moscow Nights (1934) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Moscow Nights
other title: Les Nuits moscovites / 莫斯科之夜
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Noose (1948) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Noose
other title: Die seidene Schlinge
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...
The Queen's Affair (1934) [Movie] IMDb Douban
The Queen's Affair
director: 赫伯特·威尔科克斯 actor: Anna Neagle / 费尔南德·格雷维
other title: Runaway Queen
Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country. On her arrival in Ruritania, a revolution is in progress, and only minutes before her coronation, Nadina is forced into exile. She flees to Paris with her nurse, and then travels on to Switzerland. There Nadina encounters the Ruritanian revolutionary leader Carl, recuperating from the trials of revolution, and the couple unexpectedly fall in love. When the revolution collapses in Ruritania, they return and marry, thus forming a constitutional monarchy supported by all the people.
On Approval (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
On Approval
director: Clive Brook actor: Clive Brook / Beatrice Lillie
other title: 试婚记 / Ehemann zur Ansicht
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.