Michael Balcon Movies

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

After his father sells his car, an immature playboy steals it back, and gets involved with a gang of professional car thieves. British remake of...

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)

A jealous agent uses a girl singer to break up a double act.

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

American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed...

Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.

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

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...

Concerns a young woman who embarks on a series of love affairs. Originally around 100 minutes, only a 23 minute, 9.5mm cut-down version is known to...

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...

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family...

Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and...

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

A pilot saves a dancer from a Paris nightclub owner and they stow away to Cornwall.

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 young riveter working high up on a steel girder watches a girl practising a tap-dance in a building opposite, and while applauding her, he loses...

A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend...