Michael Balcon Movies

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

'Shipwrecked valet saves affianced master from native girl.' (British Film Catalogue)

Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but...

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a...

A comedy short directed by W.P. Kellino.

In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get...

A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she...

The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company....

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building...

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she...

A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.

A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

A man rescues his wife's lover during a disaster at a coal mine

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...

In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a...

This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different...