Michael Balcon Movies

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

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

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...

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

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...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)

A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife...

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken...

A short comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino

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.

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

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who...

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...

A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a...

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

A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him...

A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought...