Michael Balcon Movies

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

The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.

The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the...

In the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit.

A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking...

Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.

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 theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.

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

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

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

It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth"...

Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations....

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is...

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.

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

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

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new...