Movies: Hay Plumb

Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister....

Hamlet is a 1913 British silent drama film directed by Hay Plumb and starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot and Walter Ringham....

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as t...

Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love....

A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film....

A dandy embarrasses his friends by joining the army....

Anglo Italian aviation drama. Now lost....

Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants....

Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in love with Vera, one of the factory workers, who is unaware of his position. So when she jokes one day t...

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs....

A henpeck taking photographs is mistaken for a spy....

An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show....

Directed by Lewin Fitzhamon....

Girls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders....

A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt....

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue....

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent....

'Brighton. Dude searches for girl's lost shoes and stockings.' (British Film Catalogue)...

A professor takes daughter's suitor's camera by mistake....

'The intrepid Lt Lilly is called upon to quell a Chinese Boxer rebellion in a spoof adventure serial.' (British Film Institute)...