James Hayter Movies

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...

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

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 trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the...

Scotland Yard is thrown into an uproar when a mad killer begins knocking off beautiful young blondes.

Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck with amnesia, and the last thing he remembers is the beautiful voice of opera singer Helen Maxwell (Evelyn...

A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends,...

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt....

Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him...

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

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...

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

Television broadcast of The Moon in the Yellow River by Denis Johnston.

A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get...

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

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

A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!

"The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".

A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This adaptation is set on...