Michael Balcon Movies

An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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.

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 British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele

In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a...

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...

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

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.

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary...