Michael Balcon Movies

'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)

Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill...

A documentary on the life of the people of the Aran Islands, who were believed to contain the essence of the ancient Irish life, represented by a...

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

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up....

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

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

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...

Professor Morlant, a British Egyptologist, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death,...

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

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.

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself....

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...

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

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

Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s...

A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part...

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new...

The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the...

Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their...