James Hayter Movies

In 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Captain Charles Boycott band together to assert their rights,...

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally...

In 1830s England, Tom Brown attends a rugby boys' school, where his moral and personal growth is formed through friendship,...

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part...

A woman vanishes after exclaiming to her husband, "You'll never see me again!" He is then finds himself under suspicion.

When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has...

"Tomorrow ..." (mañana...) is the easy exit to deceive themselves of those who feel the impotence and the cowardice to confront face to face...

Marigold is a 1938 British drama film set in Scotland in the Victorian era. It was filmed in Edinburgh. It was based on a 1914 play of the same title...

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their...

Singing Marseilles docker Joe is hired by wealthy English couple, the Oliphants, to find their missing son Gerald. When Joe finds him, he learns...

Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.

A little boy named Tommy watches as his father is arrested after a brawl. Tommy believes his father must have killed someone and rather than return...

In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.

Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of...

In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical...

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after...

An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. As the situation festers it...