Michael Balcon Movies

'Scots star sings songs in music hall setting.' (British Film Catalogue)

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 parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...

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

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

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

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

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family...

The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and...

A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to...

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

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

A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which...

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade...

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or...

A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash.

A day following workers at an airport