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A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.
MacIain
The true story of the events leading up to the infamous massacre of the Macdonalds by the Campbells in February of 1692.
Sir Lancelot Spratt
Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays 'Dr.Dare' in a very popular TV series and who women flock to. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on board, such as a pools winner and a very stubborn captain.
Sir Charles Robson
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
Maj. Bourdon
Women around the globe begin disappearing when a renegade race of top-heavy aliens from the planet Angvia begin snatching them off the streets.
Lord Scrumptious
1910년 레이싱 자동차로 이름을 날리던 차가 불의의 사고로 폐차된다. 이 차는 아내없이 두 아이를 키우는 괴짜 발명가 카렉타커스 포트에게 넘어가게 되고, 다시 예전보다 더 멋있는 자동차로 재탄생하게 된다. 한편 우연히 두 아이인 제레미와 제미마를 만난 예쁜 아가씨 트룰리 스크럼셔스는 포트와 사랑스런 두 아이들과 함께 재탄생된 치티 치티 뱅 뱅을 타고 바다로 소풍을 가게 된다. 해변가에서 포트는 아이들에게 불가리아의 전설적인 해적 바론의 이야기를 해주기 시작한다. 차가 바다 위를 떠돌고 하늘을 날고 아이들을 모두 잡아가는 이상한 나라의 이야기였다. 이 이야기는 현실이 된다. 항상 자동차 시합에서 치티 치티 뱅 뱅에게 지던 불가리아 왕은 치티 치티 뱅 뱅에게 음모를 꾸며 자동차 시합에 나오지 못하게 하지만 발명가에 의해 다시 살아난 치티 치티 뱅 뱅을 완전히 없애려고 또 다시 음모를 꾸민다. 이 과정에서 불가리아로 떠나게 된 포트와 두 아이들 그리고 트룰리는 불가리아 왕과 대치하게 되지만 불가리아 왕은 아이들을 모두 잡아들이고 지하에 가두게 된다. 포트와 트룰리는 두 아이와 같이 갇혀있던 아이들을 구하게 되고, 불가리아 왕을 물리친다.
Countess' Advisor (segment "Metzengerstein")
첫번째 에피소드(로제 바댕 연출/제인 폰다, 피터 폰다 주연). 프레데리크 백작부인(제인 폰다 분)은 기분 내키는 대로 방탕한 생활을 일삼다 숲 속에서 우연히 만난 빌헬름(피터 폰다 분)을 보고 한눈에 반한다. 그러나 빌헬름은 그녀의 유혹을 뿌리치고, 화가난 백작부인은 심복을 시켜 그의 마구간에 불을 지르게 한다. 말들을 구하려던 빌헬름은 불길에 휩싸여 죽고, 불길 속에서 검은 말 한 마리가 살아남는다. 프레데리크 백작부인은 그 말을 길들이려 하지만 검은 말은 그녀의 뜻을 따르지 않는다. 그러던 어느날 벼락이 떨어져 숲에 불이 나자 검은 말은 그녀를 태운 채 불 속으로 달려든다. 두 번째 에피소드(루이 말 연출 / 알랭 들롱, 브리지트 바르도 주연). 사디스트적인 기질을 가진 한 오스트리아 장교(알랭 들롱 분)가 타인을 모욕하고 괴롭히려 할 때마다 그와 아주 흡사하게 생긴 신입생이 개입해 그의 행동을 저지하게 되는데, 어느날 카드게임에서 패한 한 아름다운 여성(브리지트 바르도 분)을 능욕하려하자, 예의 신입생이 나타나 그의 속임수를 폭로하며 저지하려 한다. 이에 흥분한 장교는 그를 단도로 살해하고, 자신 역시 불행을 당하게 된다는 내용을 담고 있다. 세번째 에피소드(페데리코 펠리니 연출, 테렌스 스탬프 주연) 술에 취해야 천재성을 발휘하는 영국 배우 토비(테렌스 스탬프 분)는 페라리 한 대를 제공하겠다는 영화제작자의 말에 솔깃해 이태리로 날아온다. 공항에서 우연히 한 소녀의 공을 주워주게 되는데, 기다리던 제작자들을 만나 함께 차를 타고 가면서 다시 공을 주으러 뛰어가는 금발의 소녀를 목격한 토비는 전율에 휩싸인다. 이태리에서의 행사를 마치고 페라리를 받게 된 토비는 그를 괴롭히는 군중을 피해 혼자 시운전을 하게 되고, 무너진 다리 때문에 인부들이 통행을 막고 있는 도로에서 자신의 목을 걸고 도박을 벌인다.
Prince of Wales
황태자 루돌프는 사회주의자들을 가까이하고 방탕한 생활을 하다가 젊은 남작부인 마리아 베체라를 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 두 사람의 밀회가 거듭되자 황제의 심복 타페 백작이 두 사람을 떼어놓으려 하고 황제도 루돌프를 변방으로 보낸다. 루돌프는 사랑을 위해 제위 후계권까지 포기하려한다.
Angus McGee
On the run from the police, a female thief and her band of robbers take refuge on a desert island where they discover a mansion inhabited by a family whom they take hostage. One of the robbers falls for the couple's daughter.
McClintock
Story of a woman torn between her love for two different men.
Sir John (voice)
A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.
Head of Madame Tussauds' Guides
Lucy goes to hip London to experience all the current fads.
Sir Hammond
Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pretext that they are being pursued by the police, he lures his daughter away from the lawyer, but when he confesses the deception to her, Doris immediately sets off for Hammond's country estate near London. However, Hammond's father is not too fond of the connection either...
Sir Lancelot Spratt
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.
Sir Charles
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.
Librarian
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
Narrator
1910년, 영국의 신문 재벌 론슬리는 영국 비행기의 우수성을 과시하기 위해 만파운드의 상금을 걸고 런던에서 파리까지의 '에어 레이스'를 연다. 그리고 그 대회애는 전세계에의 파일럿들이 참가한다. 그러나, 그들의 목적은 비행 시합에서의 우승보다는 론슬리의 딸을 차지하기 위한 것이었는데...
British Beachmaster
After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.
Sir Beverly Grant
When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.
Captain McKenzie
A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
Sir Lancelot Spratt
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
Kapitän Freytag
RAdm. Rainbird
A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.
Charles
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
Katov - un sculpteur
A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.
Hugo Bryant
Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.
Sir Harvey Russelrod
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Justice Haddon
She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?
Luther Ackenthorpe
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
Sir Benjamin Boyd
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
Commodore Jensen / Prologue Narrator
독일군은 당시 중립을 지키고 있는 터키에 위협을 가해 전쟁에 끌어들이려 했다. 그들은 자신들의 힘을 과시하기 위한 장소로 터키에서 몇 킬로미터 밖에 떨어지지 않은 군사적인 가치도 없는 케로스라는 섬을 택한다. 독일 군대 중에서 최정예 부대가 출전할 준비를 끝내고 케로스의 영군 병사들은 대공세에 빠져나오지 못한다면 몰살당할 수 밖에 없는 상황이었다. 그러나 케로스로 가는 유일한 길은 그 근처에 있는 '나바론'이라는 섬의 두대의 거포가 막고 있었다. 최신 레이다 장비를 갖춘 두 대의 거포는 연합군의 어떠한 전함도 당할 수가 없었다.
Sir Ernest Pease KBE FRS / Lt. Farrow RN
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety - only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.
Robert Morrison
Robert Martin / 'Bow Wow'
The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French Mistress) effect on the boys is swift and amazing. Suddenly everyone wants extra French Lessons just to glimpse the teacher in revealing shorts and bikinis. As discipline crumbles, a scandal explodes when the Head discovers the mademoiselle's mother was an old flame. Madeline must be dismissed to save further embarrassments.
Sir Lancelot Spratt
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.
Capt. Robertson
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.
Mansfield
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
Naval Commander
A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.
Dr. Martout
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
James MacDonald
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
Doctor Alfred Stoner
An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.
Sir Lancelot Spratt
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.
Warren Ingram
Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.
Colonel Vladimir Denisovich Sklarnoff
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.
Capt. Boomer
바다에 희망을 걸고 사는 이스마엘(Ishmael, Narrator : 리차드 바세하트 분)과 퀴퀘그(Queequeg : 프레데릭 리더버 분)는 우연히 만나서 포경선인 피코트호를 타게 된다. 그 배의 선장 에이합(Captain Ahab : 그레고리 펙 분)은 모비 딕이라는 흰고래한테 한쪽 다리를 잃고 백경 필살을 맹세하면서 복수의 항해를 선포한다. 인도양에서 만난 엔다비호, 고래잡이 배인 레이철호 등을 만나면서 자신의 결심을 더욱 굳힌다. 심한 파도를 만나자 갑판장 버크(Starbuck : 레오 겐 분)가 심하게 반대하고 마스트의 줄을 끓어버리는 순간 마스트 끝에서 푸른빛이 번쩍인다. 이 우연한 공전현상을 흰고래가 나타난 징조라고 선원들을 안심시킨 에이합 선장은 마침내 모비딕이 나타나자 운명의 결전을 맞이한다.
General Burroughs
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito. Re-used a great deal of stock footage from The Four Feathers (1939), including the entire final battle sequence.
Sir James Colebrook
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.
Vashtar
In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life." To this end he enlists the aid of Vashtar, an architect whose people are enslaved in Egypt. The deal: build a robbery-proof tomb and the enslaved people will be freed. During the years that the pyramid is being built a Cyprian princess becomes the pharaoh's second wife, and she plots to prevent Khufu from taking his treasure with him when he dies .. as well as helping him make the journey early.
Capt. Hogg
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.
Admiral Ryder
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched for a special commando unit to attack it, using midget submarines to plant underwater explosives.
Captain Brent
A day following workers at an airport
Sir Lancelot Spratt
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
Duke Campbell, of Argyll
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
King Henry VIII
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
Jonathan Roche
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead
The MacAlister
In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls (Richard Hearne) finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan (Margaret Rutherford). She suggests that they conspire to steal a secret whiskey formula from ruthless distillers, who themselves stole it from her family in years gone by. With the recipe back in hand however, it's not long before they attract attention from the Inspectors of Scotland Yard.
Robert
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pursuit by the relentless policeman Javert, a pursuit that consumes both men's lives for many years.
Little John
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.
Matthew Huntington Hatch
The feminist author of a national best-seller titled The Lady Says No meets a sexist magazine photographer and decides she'd rather say yes.
Red Dougal
카리브해를 누비는 무시무시한 해적 검은 수염과 그의 후계자 프로비던스. 어느 날, 프로비던스가 영국 선박을 나포하는데, 그 배에 타고 있던 프랑스 군인 라로셸이 프로비던스의 눈에 띈다. 라로셸은 앤 프로비던스가 미모의 여자 선장임을 알고 놀란다. 해적 선장이었던 라로셸은 배를 빼앗긴 뒤 신분을 숨긴 채 자신의 배를 되찾을 궁리를 하고 있었다. 라로셸이 속셈을 드러내지 않은 채 기회를 엿보는 사이 앤은 라로셸을 사랑하게 된다. 활력 넘치는 여자 해적 캐릭터가 등장하는 액션 모험극. 영화 〈선셋 대로〉 〈이창〉 등의 음악을 만들었던 작곡가 프란츠 왁스만이 음악을 맡았다.
((재)영화의전당)
Abishai
성경 사무엘하에 있는 내용을 바탕으로, 전남편 유리아가 죽은 후 다윗왕에게 재가하여 솔로몬을 낳은 밧세바의 이야기!! 한여름날 저녁 궁전 집에서 바람을 쐬던 다윗은 멀리 한 여인을 보게 되었다. 마음에 들은 다윗은 그녀가 히타이트 사람 유리아의 아내이며, 유리아는 아브텔을 죽이고도 처벌을 받지 않은 장수 요압의 부하라는 사실을 알았다. 다윗은 그녀의 남편 유리아를 궁으로 초대하여 환대하고 요압에게 전할 편지를 한 통 주어 보냈다. 편지의 내용은 그를 최전방으로 보내 적에게 죽게 내버려두라는 내용의 편지였는데….
Seaman Quist
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
Engine Room Officer Trotter
Jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt swirl around a sailor (Bonar Colleano) off a cargo ship in London.
Mr. Sine
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)
Tramp
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
Simeon Beautrie
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
Prof. Keval
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
Sir Arthur Harold
Prelude to Fame is a 1950 British drama film directed by Fergus McDonell from a story by Aldous Huxley. While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell (Robin Dowell), son of John Morell (Guy Rolfe), a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine (Kathleen Ryan), becomes friendly with young Guido (Jeremy Spenser), and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. A neighboring couple, Signor and Signora Boudini (Henry Oscar and Kathleen Byron) become aware of the boy's talents, and she appeals to his parents to let her educate him musically. Torn by their love for their son and, they feel,the duty to let the world hear his talent, they consent.
Martin Alonso Pinzon
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Feste
Angelo has been drafted into the Italian Army in World War II. He does not like people shooting at him, so he tries all sorts of tricks to avoid being caught up in the action. However, events always seem to lead him back to the fighting.
Prof. Benbow
A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.
Dr. Maclaren
1943년 스코틀랜드 아우터 헤브리디스 제도의 '토디 섬(Island of Todday)' 사람들은 전쟁 때문에 위스키 공급을 제대로 받지 못해 모두 절망에 빠져 있었다. 이 와중에 영국군 상사 '오드'는 섬에 돌아와 이 지역에서 우체국을 운영하는 조셉 마크룬의 딸 페기에게 청혼을 하고 온순한 학교선생님 조지 캠벨을 마크론의 둘째 딸과 결혼을 약속하지만 엄하기로 소문난 그의 어머니는 결코 이 결혼을 허락하지 않을 기세다. 안개가 자욱한 어느 날 밤 화물선 '캐비넷 미니스터'호가 좌초되어 바다에 떠 있자 마을 사람 비퍼와 샘이 배를 저어 화물선에 다가가고 화물선을 탈출하여 나오는 선원들로부터 이 배에 5만 상자의 위스키가 실려 있다는 소식을 듣는다. 둘이 황급히 달려가 이 소식을 마을 사람들에게 전하자 모두는 기쁨을 감추지 못한다. 독선적이고 위압적인 이 섬의 지역방위군 지휘관 '왜거트' 대위는 이 사실을 알고 오드 상사에게 화물선을 철저히 감시하라고 지시하지만 우체국장 마크룬은 이 섬의 오랜 전통에 의해 위스키가 없이는 결혼식 파티를 열 수 없다는 사실을 오드 상사에게 귀뜸해 준다. 위스키가 없으면 결혼도 할 수 없다는 생각을 품게 된 오드 상사의 묵인 하에 마을 사람들은 보트를 타고 난파선에 다가가 엄청나게 많은 양의 위스키를 실어내 오고 덕분에 위스키를 잔뜩 마신 학교선생님 캠벨은 술의 힘을 빌어 고집 세고 터프한 어머니에게 용감히 맞서 카트리나와 결혼을 선언한다. 드디어 캠벨과 오드 상사의 결혼식 파티가 벌어지고 마을 사람들은 넘쳐나는 위스키와 함께 흥겨운 파티를 마음껏 즐긴다. 한편 섬사람들이 위스키를 몰래 빼냈다는 사실을 알아차린 왜거트 대위는 본토의 관세청 관리와 함께 위스키를 찾아 나서고, 마을 사람들은 결혼식 파티를 일단 중지하고 위스키를 감추기 위해 그들과 한판승을 벌이는데... (EBS)
Arthur Peters
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
P.O. (Taff) Evans R.N.
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him
Branksome
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
Eugene Dakers
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
Ackerman
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.
Dr. Grimstone
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.
Prison Governor
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
Centurion of the 8th Legion
Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
Patron (uncredited)
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
Operations Room Officer
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.