Movies: Hay Plumb

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....

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...

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

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

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

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....

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

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....

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

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter....

Anglo Italian aviation drama. Now lost....

A star player is kidnapped by the opposition. However, they are foiled by his girl-friend, just in time for him to get to the match and score the winning goal....

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)...

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

'An unemployed labourer is driven to burglary when he is unable to find work.' (British Film Institute)...

A man caught in a fight causes pain to his sympathetic twin....

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

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