A drunken ship’s fireman comes back to Liverpool after many years and causes trouble.
Two friends are determined to restore the fortunes of a war-weary coastal village by winning a yacht race.
A crooked wrestling promoter is tracked down by an underground gang.
The health of a child musical prodigy is endangered by an ambitious woman who pushes him to the top.
A cheerful stowaway on a yacht helps the owners catch smugglers.
A foppish 18th-century London dandy is actually the hero who rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine.
Comedy of national servicemen and their misdemeanours.
Three more Somerset Maugham short stories introduced by the author.
Retiring through ill health, a classics master finds that he is hated by his unfaithful wife, his headmaster and his pupils. An unexpected act of kindness gives him courage to face the future.
Returning home after being thought dead for two years, an unhinged explorer discovers that his wife is in love with another man.
Saboteurs are routed by the London police.
Imagine, one day, finding that you can walk through walls!
A lady novelist poisons her husband and lover, then unwittingly takes a fatal dose herself.
A mysterious murderer haunts a seaside resort.
A Swedish scientist chases into Lapland after his wife and her lover who have stolen an important formula.
A poor young man, offered the chance of a rich wife, allows himself to be convicted and executed for the death of his former fiancée.
An exploited child prodigy has his unhappy existence transformed by the daring plan of his loving governess.
A vengeful wife attempts to poison her neglectful husband, but he survives, having lost his memory.
A chorus girl meets a millionaire during the Edinburgh Festival.
A scientist produces a fabric that never gets dirty and never wears out. Unions and management are equally aghast.
Tom Brown finds life at Rugby brutal, but helps to become a civilising influence. Remake of the 1940 version.
An old flame tries to blackmail a highly respectable solicitor.
A blind lawyer solves the death of a traitor.
A timid bank clerk conceives and executes a bullion robbery.
A young girl accuses two gentlewomen of kidnapping and ill-treating her.