BRINGING HOME
THE BALCON THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE HEAD OF EALING STUDIOS
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MICHAEL BALCON WAS invited, by an associate named Reginald Baker, to become the head of Ealing Studios in 1938. Ten years later, he was knighted. It was a fair reflection of the impact the Birmingham-born Balcon made in just a decade at the helm of Ealing, where he oversaw production on pretty much every Ealing film considered to be a classic, from The Ladykillers (below) to Dead Of Night (which reunited him with Alberto Cavalcanti).