Michael Balcon Movies

A short comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino

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

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

'Lady's son poses as chauffeur to woo girl who buys taxi.' (British Film Catalogue)

British war documentary

During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating...

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

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

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

A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife...

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele

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

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...

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...

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

A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.

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

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