Michael Balcon Movies

The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

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

A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.

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

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

An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.

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

Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.

'Spain. English tourist gets drunk and fights bull.' (British Film Catalogue)

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

A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.

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

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

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 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...

'1820. Officer frames colleague when gambler forces him to steal secrets.' (British Film Catalogue)

A young riveter working high up on a steel girder watches a girl practising a tap-dance in a building opposite, and while applauding her, he loses...

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

An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.