Michael Balcon Movies

It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth"...

'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)

An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..

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

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...

The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a handsome young courier.

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...

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

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

The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are...

Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.

In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

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...

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

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

According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian...

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the...

Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations....