Michael Balcon Movies

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

A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.

A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.

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

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

The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

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...

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

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

British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had...

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...

George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and...

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele

Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but...

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...

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

While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to...

A short comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino

British war documentary