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"...

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...

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

Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.

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

A British drama film directed by Denison Clift

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...

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

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

Sunshine Susie was a remake of the German film Die Privatsekretärin, and retained many of the originals general characteristics. Renete Muller...

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 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...

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...

A man rescues his wife's lover during a disaster at a coal mine

American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed...

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...

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...

The life and times of the Duke of Wellington

'1820. Officer frames colleague when gambler forces him to steal secrets.' (British Film Catalogue)

'Newsreel cameramen wrest secret papers from Chinese bandit.' (British Film Catalogue)