Skinner
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.
Jarvis ("The Picture" segment)
Narra tres relatos en clave fantástico de tema sobrenatural: una fantasma regresa a una galería de arte, en la segunda una chica es asesinada y en el último un Lord es castigado por el recuerdo de un hombre al que humilló.
Coroner
A middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.
Braithwaite
After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her support her husband will eventually run his own business. A lack of understanding of each other s character and aspirations, however, leads to many problems before Johnny and Kit are able to attempt a 'good beginning' to their marriage.
Ned Inching
La nave de los condenados (Botany Bay) de John Farrow. Melodrama aventurero cuya acción se desarrolla en el siglo XVIII, cuando un estudiante de medicina es injustamente confinado a una dura prisión situada en una colonia inglesa de las Antípodas. Allí será torturado sin piedad por un sádico capitán, al tiempo que una atractiva muchacha comienza a sentirse atraída por él.
A Very Late Visitor
A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.
Almoner
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Wilfred Davies
Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
Minister
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
Martin
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Sir John Penty
Drama ambientado en el siglo XIX, acerca de una joven gitana muy atractiva a la que acusan del asesinato de su marido.
Sir Nicholas Hathaway
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
Wagner
Europa, 1939. Alemania y Gran Bretaña se encuentran a punto de enfrentarse en una nueva guerra. El profesor Horatio Smith viaja con sus estudiantes a la Europa continental para participar en una excavación arqueológica, pero cuando sus alumnos descubran que lo que busca Smith es construir un camino que facilite la huida a los enemigos del nazismo, lo apoyarán con más ahínco. Sin embargo, el plan se complica cuando un estudiante introduzca en el grupo a una misteriosa mujer que resulta ser una espía de la Gestapo. (FILMAFFINITY)
