Michael Balcon Movies

  • 1928
    The Vortex

    The Vortex

    The Vortex

    61928HD

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

    The Vortex
  • 1955
    Out of the Clouds

    Out of the Clouds

    Out of the Clouds

    61955HD

    A day following workers at an airport

    Out of the Clouds
  • 1949
    A Run for Your Money

    A Run for Your Money

    A Run for Your Money

    5.91949HD

    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...

    A Run for Your Money
  • 1942
    The Big Blockade

    The Big Blockade

    The Big Blockade

    6.51942HD

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

    The Big Blockade
  • 1940
    Let George Do It!

    Let George Do It!

    Let George Do It!

    5.81940HD

    Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken...

    Let George Do It!
  • 1941
    Yellow Caesar

    Yellow Caesar

    Yellow Caesar

    5.81941HD

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

    Yellow Caesar
  • 1949
    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    7.6551949HD

    When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...

    Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • 1943
    San Demetrio London

    San Demetrio London

    San Demetrio London

    6.71943HD

    Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the...

    San Demetrio London
  • 1948
    Another Shore

    Another Shore

    Another Shore

    5.11948HD

    A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

    Another Shore
  • 1943
    The Bells Go Down

    The Bells Go Down

    The Bells Go Down

    6.81943HD

    Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...

    The Bells Go Down
  • 1951
    Where No Vultures Fly

    Where No Vultures Fly

    Where No Vultures Fly

    5.61951HD

    A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to...

    Where No Vultures Fly
  • 1934
    Aunt Sally

    Aunt Sally

    Aunt Sally

    4.51934HD

    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...

    Aunt Sally
  • 1954
    The 'Maggie'

    The 'Maggie'

    The 'Maggie'

    6.21954HD

    The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old...

    The 'Maggie'
  • 1944
    For Those in Peril

    For Those in Peril

    For Those in Peril

    5.1671944HD

    A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking...

    For Those in Peril
  • 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
  • 1950
    Cage of Gold

    Cage of Gold

    Cage of Gold

    6.61950HD

    The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.

    Cage of Gold
  • 1935
    Me and Marlborough

    Me and Marlborough

    Me and Marlborough

    4.51935HD

    A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

    Me and Marlborough
  • 1936
    Where There's a Will

    Where There's a Will

    Where There's a Will

    6.61936HD

    Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with...

    Where There's a Will
  • 1948
    Against the Wind

    Against the Wind

    Against the Wind

    6.11948HD

    A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to...

    Against the Wind
  • 1942
    The Foreman Went to France

    The Foreman Went to France

    The Foreman Went to France

    6.21942HD

    Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

    The Foreman Went to France