Two young people search Italy for a religious painting stolen by thieves.
An author leaves his wife for another woman, changes his mind on the journey, pulls the communication cord and causes a train crash. Or does he?
A peasant seduces, marries and impregnates women in 19th century Russia, with a side line in infanticide.
A nobleman takes in a flirtatious girl and finds she causes trouble for him and his family.
The ill-treated wife of a vicious millionaire leaves him for a doctor, but finds she has to have the millionaire’s baby.
A bungling detective makes a disastrous attempt to bring a gang of jewel thieves to justice.
A shipwrecked boy and girl grow up on a desert island, ward off smugglers, have a baby, and eventually sail away in search of civilization.
A playwright and his slaphappy wife share a house with a super-efficient couple.
Portmanteau of stories, linked by a train disaster.
A woman marries an older man, then meets again her young lover.
A bomb expert with a lame foot and a drink problem risks his life dismantling a booby bomb and returns to his long-suffering girlfriend.
A draper’s assistant buys a small shop, but tires of his nagging wife and decides the time has come for a change.
A divorced couple while honeymooning with their new spouses discover that they are staying at the same hotel.
A Russian officer tries to wrest from an ancient countess the secret of winning at cards, in return for which he has sold his soul to the devil; but she dies of fright and haunts him.
An aged earl is bewildered when his son fails to be elected to parliament as a socialist, but his butler gets in as a Tory.
In Australia in 1830 an English immigrant stays with his cousin Henrietta, who has become a dipsomaniac because of her husband’s cruelty.
A girl changes places with her inventor uncle’s robot woman.
A woman accidentally kills her daughter’s would-be seducer, and is then trailed by a blackmailer.
Scandal almost results when Lady Windermere loses her fan.
Two reporters revive a West of England local newspaper, and expose local corruption.
An unintelligent but tenacious writer of Westerns arrives in post-war Vienna to join his old friend Harry Lime, who seems to have met with an accident… or has he?
In Cromwellian England, royalists commisson a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped by Nell Gwynn, he succeeds after encounters with a castle ghost and custard pies.
Displaced persons gather for comfort in a disused German theatre.
A doctor decides to kill his wife’s lover by imprisoning him in a lonely cellar while he accumulates enough acid to destroy all trace of his body.
A girl finds she has the unconscious power to bring all machinery to a halt.