Michael Balcon Movies

  • 1933
    The Ghoul

    The Ghoul

    The Ghoul

    5.6031933HD

    British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death,...

    The Ghoul
  • 1955
    The Night My Number Came Up

    The Night My Number Came Up

    The Night My Number Came Up

    6.81955HD

    British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small...

    The Night My Number Came Up
  • 1956
    The Long Arm

    The Long Arm

    The Long Arm

    6.9741956HD

    Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The...

    The Long Arm
  • 1961
    The Long and the Short and the Tall

    The Long and the Short and the Tall

    The Long and the Short and the Tall

    6.8461961HD

    Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the...

    The Long and the Short and the Tall
  • 1950
    The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp

    6.6181950HD

    P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the...

    The Blue Lamp
  • 1957
    The Man in the Sky

    The Man in the Sky

    The Man in the Sky

    7.11957HD

    The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself....

    The Man in the Sky
  • 1948
    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    6.11948HD

    Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of...

    Saraband for Dead Lovers
  • 1934
    Man of Aran

    Man of Aran

    Man of Aran

    7.31934HD

    A documentary on the life of the people of the Aran Islands, who were believed to contain the essence of the ancient Irish life, represented by a...

    Man of Aran
  • 1951
    Pool of London

    Pool of London

    Pool of London

    6.4851951HD

    Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

    Pool of London
  • 1926
    The Mountain Eagle

    The Mountain Eagle

    The Mountain Eagle

    2.81926HD

    In the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit. A lost film.

    The Mountain Eagle
  • 1949
    Passport to Pimlico

    Passport to Pimlico

    Passport to Pimlico

    6.91949HD

    When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part...

    Passport to Pimlico
  • 1959
    The Scapegoat

    The Scapegoat

    The Scapegoat

    6.81959HD

    An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

    The Scapegoat
  • 1944
    The Halfway House

    The Halfway House

    The Halfway House

    6.41944HD

    A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness...

    The Halfway House
  • 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
  • 1947
    Hue and Cry

    Hue and Cry

    Hue and Cry

    6.3441947HD

    A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer...

    Hue and Cry
  • 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'
  • 1946
    The Captive Heart

    The Captive Heart

    The Captive Heart

    6.41946HD

    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...

    The Captive Heart
  • 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
  • 1947
    Frieda

    Frieda

    Frieda

    5.31947HD

    An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who...

    Frieda
  • 1940
    Convoy

    Convoy

    Convoy

    5.41940HD

    A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

    Convoy