Michael Balcon Movies

Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years...

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.

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 re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!

An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.

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

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

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

'Lady's son poses as chauffeur to woo girl who buys taxi.' (British Film Catalogue)

A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which...

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

Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an...

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

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

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