A waitress wins a local beauty contest and becomes a charm school starlet and later a stripteaser.
A wealthy man accidentally kills a criminal in love with his daughter; he hides the body, which then disappears.
During a transatlantic flight, a boffin works out that the plane’s tail is about to fall off from metal fatigue.
An American in England investigates the strange death some years earlier of his brother during a commando raid.
Passengers stranded in a snowbound railway station solve a mystery.
A smuggling sailor gets involved in murder.
A cold but beautiful American woman in Spain falls for a mystery man who turns out to be a ghostly sea captain; she dies so as to be with him.
In North Africa during World War II, a small hotel changes its loyalties to suit its occupiers.
A playwright and his slaphappy wife share a house with a super-efficient couple.
Two London dockers find a dead Dutchman floating in the Thames.
Various adventures of the Pickwick Club culminate in Mrs Bardell’s suit for breach of promise.
A journalist suspects that the death of a tycoon was murder.
A little girl, born deaf, is sent to a special school.
A gangster’s child is orphaned and cared for by two con men.
Three men are suspected of murder but one becomes a potential victim.
An aristocratic detective helps a woman find her missing uncle, the scientist behind a top-secret formula.
Derring-do among the knights of medieval England.
A pilot wakes up in a strange hotel, discovers he is the chief suspect for the murder of a former member of his squadron, and begins his own investigation.
A Lancashire millgirl spends a week at Blackpool with the master’s son, but causes a scandal when she refuses to marry him.
A reporter on the Paris staff of the New York Herald-Tribune goes to Yugoslavia, is arrested as a spy, and has to be exchanged.
After World War II a young couple find civilian life difficult and dreary, but finally start a catering and secretarial business.
The valet of the British ambassador in Ankara sells military secrets to the Germans, who pay him but never use the information.
Fortnightly review of films and studio interviews with leading personalities of the cinema world.
An old washerwoman accidentally catches a robot-wielding crook called The Vampire.
A shopkeeper refuses to move and provide a site for the Festival of Britain.