Michael Balcon Movies

  • 1933
    Orders Is Orders

    Orders Is Orders

    Orders Is Orders

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    A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander...

    Orders Is Orders
  • 1958
    Davy

    Davy

    Davy

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    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...

    Davy
  • 1927
    Ghost Train

    Ghost Train

    Ghost Train

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

    Ghost Train
  • 1931
    Harry Lauder Songs

    Harry Lauder Songs

    Harry Lauder Songs

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    'Scots star sings songs in music hall setting.' (British Film Catalogue)

    Harry Lauder Songs
  • 1931
    A Gentleman of Paris

    A Gentleman of Paris

    A Gentleman of Paris

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    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...

    A Gentleman of Paris
  • 1933
    Britannia of Billingsgate

    Britannia of Billingsgate

    Britannia of Billingsgate

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    The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a...

    Britannia of Billingsgate
  • 1941
    Yellow Caesar

    Yellow Caesar

    Yellow Caesar

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

    Yellow Caesar
  • 1932
    There Goes the Bride

    There Goes the Bride

    There Goes the Bride

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    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...

    There Goes the Bride
  • 1929
    The Wrecker

    The Wrecker

    The Wrecker

    6.21929HD

    The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company....

    The Wrecker
  • 1939
    Happy Family

    Happy Family

    Happy Family

    01939HD

    Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.

    Happy Family
  • 1939
    Cheer Boys Cheer

    Cheer Boys Cheer

    Cheer Boys Cheer

    5.81939HD

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

    Cheer Boys Cheer
  • 1935
    Car of Dreams

    Car of Dreams

    Car of Dreams

    5.61935HD

    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...

    Car of Dreams
  • 1933
    Sleeping Car

    Sleeping Car

    Sleeping Car

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    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...

    Sleeping Car
  • 1940
    All Hands

    All Hands

    All Hands

    01940HD

    From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators....

    All Hands
  • 1928
    A Light Woman

    A Light Woman

    A Light Woman

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    Concerns a young woman who embarks on a series of love affairs. Originally around 100 minutes, only a 23 minute, 9.5mm cut-down version is known to...

    A Light Woman
  • 1933
    I Was a Spy

    I Was a Spy

    I Was a Spy

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    During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating...

    I Was a Spy
  • 1930
    A Warm Corner

    A Warm Corner

    A Warm Corner

    4.51930HD

    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...

    A Warm Corner
  • 1942
    The Black Sheep of Whitehall

    The Black Sheep of Whitehall

    The Black Sheep of Whitehall

    7.21942HD

    A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...

    The Black Sheep of Whitehall
  • 1941
    Ships with Wings

    Ships with Wings

    Ships with Wings

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    Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade...

    Ships with Wings
  • 1940
    Now You're Talking

    Now You're Talking

    Now You're Talking

    01940HD

    Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

    Now You're Talking