Michael Balcon Movies

  • 1927
    Ghost Train

    Ghost Train

    Ghost Train

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    Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is...

    Ghost Train
  • 1941
    Turned Out Nice Again

    Turned Out Nice Again

    Turned Out Nice Again

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    George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and...

    Turned Out Nice Again
  • 1933
    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

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    Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

    The Good Companions
  • 1970
    The Ealing Comedies

    The Ealing Comedies

    The Ealing Comedies

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    The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

    The Ealing Comedies
  • 1943
    My Learned Friend

    My Learned Friend

    My Learned Friend

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    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...

    My Learned Friend
  • 1934
    Road House

    Road House

    Road House

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

    Road House
  • 1954
    Lease of Life

    Lease of Life

    Lease of Life

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    The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

    Lease of Life
  • 1933
    Britannia of Billingsgate

    Britannia of Billingsgate

    Britannia of Billingsgate

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    The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a...

    Britannia of Billingsgate
  • 1940
    Now You're Talking

    Now You're Talking

    Now You're Talking

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

    Now You're Talking
  • 1956
    Who Done It?

    Who Done It?

    Who Done It?

    5.21956HD

    This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private...

    Who Done It?
  • 1931
    Harry Lauder Songs

    Harry Lauder Songs

    Harry Lauder Songs

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

    Harry Lauder Songs
  • 1925
    Typical Budget

    Typical Budget

    Typical Budget

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    A spoof of the Topical Budget newsreels with items on "Daylight Saving", "Economy in the Household", "The Art of Self Protection", and "Paris...

    Typical Budget
  • 1943
    Undercover

    Undercover

    Undercover

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    Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope...

    Undercover
  • 1946
    The Overlanders

    The Overlanders

    The Overlanders

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    It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth"...

    The Overlanders
  • 1940
    Return to Yesterday

    Return to Yesterday

    Return to Yesterday

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    Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

    Return to Yesterday
  • 1935
    Foreign Affaires

    Foreign Affaires

    Foreign Affaires

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

    Foreign Affaires
  • 1925
    The Blackguard

    The Blackguard

    The Blackguard

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    A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..

    The Blackguard
  • 1941
    The Ghost of St. Michael's

    The Ghost of St. Michael's

    The Ghost of St. Michael's

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    Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary...

    The Ghost of St. Michael's
  • 1940
    Saloon Bar

    Saloon Bar

    Saloon Bar

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    A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

    Saloon Bar
  • 1925
    The Rat

    The Rat

    The Rat

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    When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron,...

    The Rat