Michael Balcon Movies

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'

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

Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the...

British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small...

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele

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...

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...

Game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

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.

An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town...

An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.

George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and...

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

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 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.

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show...