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Sir Michael Elias Balcon (19 May 1896 – 17 October 1977) was an English film producer, known for his work with Ealing Studios. Balcon had earlier worked for Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont British and MGM-British.
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24 July 1931
An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.
22 September 1931
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force.
06 December 1931
Sunshine Susie was a remake of the German film Die Privatsekretärin, and retained many of the originals general characteristics.
24 May 1941
Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.
09 January 1935
Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory.
30 December 1936
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare.
01 January 1933
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor.
08 December 1932
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent.
29 August 1936
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 his balance and falls.
06 June 1928
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 results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
23 June 1949
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family.
29 October 1936
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off.
01 March 1940
Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft.
29 November 1948
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to bem
06 June 1935
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back.
29 October 1945
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port.
01 May 1932
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
29 April 1946
A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis.
01 August 1935
Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but continually flirt with other people.
10 February 1931
'Scots star sings songs in music hall setting.' (British Film Catalogue)
06 June 1933
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married.
11 July 1957
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
21 March 1930
'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
18 May 1940
A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a cocktail bar.
23 November 1925
A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
01 December 1940
The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.
09 September 1945
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare.
11 June 1932
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps.
25 August 1944
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
09 December 1934
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
14 December 1940
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious.
11 September 1936
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked.
01 January 1942
Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.
15 June 1942
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.
13 June 1934
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub.
08 December 1955
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
21 February 1936
After his father sells his car, an immature playboy steals it back, and gets involved with a gang of professional car thieves.
04 December 1931
A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought before him for trial.
01 September 1935
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
14 February 1927
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog.
07 August 1951
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out.
02 December 1936
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily.
01 September 1945
In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.
26 July 1943
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people.
29 July 1952
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.
16 July 1931
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 suspicion.
01 June 1944
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 them to safety.
19 June 1956
Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St.
28 June 1951
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
10 August 1936
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later.
02 December 1940
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules.
02 April 1944
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn.
18 February 1938
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
01 August 2000
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors.
13 October 1934
A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life in the 18th-century Jewish ghetto of Württemberg.
22 July 1935
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
01 December 1933
Second of three versions of Margaret Kennedy’s novel about a sickly, sensitive Belgian schoolgirl, Tessa (Victoria Hopper), in love with world-famous composer Lewis Dodd (Brian Aherne), who marries her wealthy cousin Florence (Leonora Corbett).
01 September 1936
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
11 May 1936
During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy.
