James Hayter Movies

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human...

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a...

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

Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald...

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

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...

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...

Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic...

A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long...

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying...

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money...

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

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter and falls in love.

Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.

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

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...

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate...