Michael Balcon Movies

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...

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

'1820. Officer frames colleague when gambler forces him to steal secrets.' (British Film Catalogue)

A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.

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

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 young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....

With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star...

'Spain. English tourist gets drunk and fights bull.' (British Film Catalogue)

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

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their...

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

From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators....

An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!

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

A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to...

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

Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years...

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...