Douglas Bader loses both legs in a 1931 air crash, learns to walk on artificial limbs and flies again in World War II.
Survivors from a torpedoed destroyer recall their life at sea and on leave.
An elderly English lord sends his nephew to woo a French lady on his behalf; but the boy falls in love with her himself.
An Englishman on holiday in Ruritania finds himself helping to defeat a rebel plot by impersonating the kidnapped king at his coronation.
During the Napoleonic wars a widow is co-opted as a spy.
The son of the exiled king of Scandia seeks King Arthur’s help against the usurper, and becomes involved in a court plot.
A jilted woman becomes unscrupulous in business in order to get even with her ex-boyfriend.
Princess Salome of Galilee eludes her licentious stepfather, falls in love with a secret Christian and leaves home when her dancing fails to save the life of John the Baptist.
An opinionated young lady of the early 19th century wins herself a rich husband she had at first despised for his pride.
A failure reports to the College of One-Upmanship and his life is transformed.
A village community is set at odds by a writer of vindictive anonymous letters.
After long preparation, Captain Scott sets off on his ill-fated 1912 expedition to the South Pole.
A smooth crook seduces the daughter of an eastern ambassador in London to gain entry to the embassy and rob it.
During World War II five convicted criminals become commandos.
On Romney Marsh at the turn of the century, a woman farmer has three suitors.
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
An American diplomat in London falls in love with an actress, but protects himself by saying that he is married.
Adventures of a Gaiety girl who married a lord.
An Austrian refugee in the south of France is asked by the police to track down a spy among his fellow guests.
In the 1890s a tyrannical Lancashire bootmaker is brought to heel by his plain-speaking daughter and her simple-minded husband.
In Tanganyika, an educated native helps white men to counter the force of witch doctors and persuade tribes to leave an infected area.
Twelve men are caught in a trapped submarine, and only eight can escape.
A determined girl travels to the Hebrides to marry a wealthy old man, but is stranded on Mull and marries a young naval officer instead.
An English flyer is involved in the defence of Malta during World War II.
A draper’s assistant buys a small shop, but tires of his nagging wife and decides the time has come for a change.