Michael Balcon Movies

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

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

Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.

A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of...

Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in...

A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.

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

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

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

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

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

Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by...

A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which...

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

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

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer...

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele

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