Michael Balcon Movies

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she...

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

David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building...

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 short comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino

A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.

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...

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...

Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the...

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

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

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

'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)

In the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit.

A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under...

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

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

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

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