Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
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.
The father of a girl in an orphanage, who doesn't remember him, has been writing to her with tales of his success in business. Actually, he is impersonating a friend, a handsome gambler. When the father dies, the gambler takes the girl from the orphanage and tells her the truth. But the girl is now a full-grown beauty and complications arise, including those provided by a black-sheep brother.
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
핍(Young Pip: 안소니 와거 분)은 누나와 매형과 함께 살고 있는 소년이다. 매형은 대장장이이며 억척같은 누나는 핍을 구박하고 멸시한다. 그러던 어느 날 핍은 부모님 무덤가에서 한 죄수를 만나게 되고 그에게 음식과 철끈을 가져다준다. 죄수는 결국 잡히게 되지만 그 죄수는 아이에 대한 고마운 마음을 간직하게 된다. 그러던 어느 날 핍은 해비쉠(Miss Havisham: 마리타 헌트 분)이라는 유복하지만 늙은 노처녀의 집으로 초대를 받는다. 함께 놀아주는 대가로 일종의 보수를 받게 된 것이다. 여기서 핍은 아름다운 소녀 에스텔라(Young Estella: 진 시몬스 분)를 만나고 그녀를 사모하게 된다.
A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
