Lady Cynthia Marchmont
Eustace and Dorrie Edgehill have decided to leave Samola, a British protectorate in the Pacific. After the failure of his latest harebrained scheme, no one is likely to give Eustace a job now. Or are they?
Mrs. Eustace (uncredited)
Harry es un joven oficial del ejército del imperio británico que es llamado, junto con su regimiento, a combatir contra los rebeldes en Egipto.
Cuando, unos días antes de embarcar, decide abandonar, sus tres compañeros y su prometida le envian cuatro plumas blancas, que significa que para ellos es un cobarde.
A partir de ese momento, Harry arriesgará su vida para devolver las cuatro plumas y recobrar su honor.
Mrs. Parkhurst
Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman.
Mrs. Ross
El jefe del servicio de espionaje soviético, el coronel Stock, proyecta huir a Occidente. Harry Palmer, un hombre que ejerce de espía a la fuerza tras haber sido atrapado en un sucio asunto, es enviado a Berlín para ayudar a Stock, pero para ello tendrá que cambiar de identidad.
Clara Holland
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Diane Blackton
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Después de ser herido y dado de baja, un piloto norteamericano regresa a su casa. Nada más llegar, se entera de la muerte de su esposa. Según la policía se trata de un suicidio, pero al marido no le satisface esta explicación y decide investigar el asunto por su cuenta.
Mary
Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
Mrs. Arthur
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.