Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?"
Maggie
O Tenente Rip Crandall é enganado para assumir o comando do "Pior Calhambeque do Mundo" - um lixo de barco com uma tripulação de desajustados que não sabem a diferença entre popa e proa. O que nenhum deles sabe, incluindo Crandall, é que este barco tem uma muito importante missão secreta para cumprir em águas patrulhadas pela frota japonesa. Sua missão será salvar centenas de vidas aliadas - só eles podem chegar até lá inteiros.
Peggy
Joe Marsh (Robert Arden) is a U.S. Army captain who goes on the run in Britain after committing murder. He breaks into a family's home and forces 7-year-old Tommy Martin (Richard Williams) to guide his escape through the surrounding rural territory. A bond begins to form between the child and the desperate fugitive, but Marsh's criminal nature cannot help but show itself again before the chase comes to an end.
Rose
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.
