Michael Balcon Movies

'Lady's son poses as chauffeur to woo girl who buys taxi.' (British Film Catalogue)

British war documentary

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

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their...

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different...

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

The fumble fingered Josser finds himself thrown off the police force for his constant bungling, but by the picture's end, he manages to redeem...

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...

An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.

Second of three versions of Margaret Kennedy’s novel about a sickly, sensitive Belgian schoolgirl, Tessa (Victoria Hopper), in love with...

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

Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an...

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

A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....

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

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

A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she...

A jealous agent uses a girl singer to break up a double act.

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...