Michael Balcon Movies

  • 1955
    The Night My Number Came Up

    The Night My Number Came Up

    The Night My Number Came Up

    6.81955HD

    British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small...

    The Night My Number Came Up
  • 1936
    The Man Who Changed His Mind

    The Man Who Changed His Mind

    The Man Who Changed His Mind

    61936HD

    Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks...

    The Man Who Changed His Mind
  • 1947
    It Always Rains on Sunday

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    6.61947HD

    During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

    It Always Rains on Sunday
  • 1948
    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    6.3441948HD

    Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of...

    Saraband for Dead Lovers
  • 1946
    The Captive Heart

    The Captive Heart

    The Captive Heart

    6.41946HD

    A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier...

    The Captive Heart
  • 1947
    Hue and Cry

    Hue and Cry

    Hue and Cry

    6.41947HD

    A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer...

    Hue and Cry
  • 1952
    Mandy

    Mandy

    Mandy

    6.91952HD

    London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up....

    Mandy
  • 1953
    The Titfield Thunderbolt

    The Titfield Thunderbolt

    The Titfield Thunderbolt

    71953HD

    When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves,...

    The Titfield Thunderbolt
  • 1939
    Cheer Boys Cheer

    Cheer Boys Cheer

    Cheer Boys Cheer

    5.81939HD

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

    Cheer Boys Cheer
  • 1954
    The 'Maggie'

    The 'Maggie'

    The 'Maggie'

    6.21954HD

    The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old...

    The 'Maggie'
  • 1951
    Pool of London

    Pool of London

    Pool of London

    6.51951HD

    Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

    Pool of London
  • 1961
    The Long and the Short and the Tall

    The Long and the Short and the Tall

    The Long and the Short and the Tall

    6.8461961HD

    Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the...

    The Long and the Short and the Tall
  • 1956
    The Long Arm

    The Long Arm

    The Long Arm

    6.9741956HD

    Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The...

    The Long Arm
  • 1959
    The Siege of Pinchgut

    The Siege of Pinchgut

    The Siege of Pinchgut

    61959HD

    An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.

    The Siege of Pinchgut
  • 1923
    Woman to Woman

    Woman to Woman

    Woman to Woman

    6.51923HD

    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...

    Woman to Woman
  • 1936
    Where There's a Will

    Where There's a Will

    Where There's a Will

    6.8331936HD

    Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with...

    Where There's a Will
  • 1934
    Man of Aran

    Man of Aran

    Man of Aran

    7.31934HD

    A documentary on the life of the people of the Aran Islands, who were believed to contain the essence of the ancient Irish life, represented by a...

    Man of Aran
  • 1940
    Convoy

    Convoy

    Convoy

    5.41940HD

    A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

    Convoy
  • 1931
    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    6.51931HD

    On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a...

    The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • 1948
    Against the Wind

    Against the Wind

    Against the Wind

    6.11948HD

    A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to...

    Against the Wind