Movies: Michael Balcon

Sunshine Susie was a remake of the German film Die Privatsekretärin, and retained many of the originals general characteristics. Renete Muller who starred in the original, was again cast as the country girl seeking fame and fortune in the big city. S...

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. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - y...

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

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into ...

British war documentary...

A jealous agent uses a girl singer to break up a double act....

The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door....

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

A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue....

Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies....

A British drama film directed by Denison Clift...

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. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, Georg...

A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love....

'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)...

The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a handsome young courier....

'Newsreel cameramen wrest secret papers from Chinese bandit.' (British Film Catalogue)...

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. It turns out that the woman is his ex-mistress, and the judge knows that she is not...

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). Under...

Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result....

From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1940s actor John Mills, playing a sailor whose girl...