Movies: Michael Balcon

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...

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 beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to tu...

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regard...

A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child....

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

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....

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 war effort....

'Shipwrecked valet saves affianced master from native girl.' (British Film Catalogue)...

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....

In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get her fiancé hired as the orchestra's pianist....

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

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele...

Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister....

A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious....

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area....

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 la...

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

Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in I...

The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked on it as assistant director and also handled the writing, editing, and art direction. The film was l...

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