Michael Balcon Movies

Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by...

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show...

An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.

Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

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

When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron,...

A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.

A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under...

The fumble fingered Josser finds himself thrown off the police force for his constant bungling, but by the picture's end, he manages to redeem...

Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the...

In 15th century Scotland, a woman of an outlaw clan tries to rescue both her father and her lover when they're captured by the king's men.

A marooned sailor and his stowaway sister-in-law are rescued by her husband.

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned...

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is...

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

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a...

A spoof of the Topical Budget newsreels with items on "Daylight Saving", "Economy in the Household", "The Art of Self Protection", and "Paris...

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