Sir Harold
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.
Dr. Roose
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
Trenchard
The Master joins forces with The Sea Devils to take over the world, unless The Doctor and The Royal Navy can stop them.
Col. Gordon
A young man visits the house of a snake collector...horror ensues
Lord Delford
The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffrey is approached by a German spy who offers him a chance to defect, he reports the incident to his superiors, but instead of arresting the spy they suggest that he accept her offer--and become an Allied agent. In Germany, among old friends, Geoffrey discovers that loyalty is more complicated than he expected, especially when he finds himself aboard the maiden voyage of a powerful new prototype Zeppelin, headed for Scotland on a secret mission that could decide the outcome of the war.
Mr. Eshton
Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many strange things happen and eventually she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfeild and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light, and it will take all of her courage, love and understanding to triumph.
Sir Andrew Manton QC
Peter Barkham hero-worships his distinguished father. However, this is threatened by the intrusion of events and people from his father's wartime past.
General Paunceforth
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.
Col. Flower
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.
Mister K
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Lord Talbot
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Artillery General at Field Briefing (uncredited)
Graças ao seu conhecimento dos beduínos, o oficial britânico T.E. Lawrence é enviado à Arábia para encontrar o príncipe Faisal e servir de ligação entre árabes e ingleses na luta contra os turcos. Com a ajuda do nativo xerife Ali, Lawrence se rebela contra as ordens de seus superiores e enfrenta uma jornada através do deserto para atacar um porto turco bem protegido.
Judge
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.
Hatfield
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
Ramsey Brown
TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.
V.I.P.
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.
National TV Director General
Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton, who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe.
Mabel
An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their circumstances. The men still wear uniforms and the proper reports are filed, although the reports of hundreds of mines are exaggerated. The captain spends his time fishing, the Number One is busy romancing the only Wren on the island and The Chief Boatswain runs a wine smuggling business. Unfortunately the Navy start to get suspicious.
Rear Admiral
An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their circumstances. The men still wear uniforms and the proper reports are filed, although the reports of hundreds of mines are exaggerated. The captain spends his time fishing, the Number One is busy romancing the only Wren on the island and The Chief Boatswain runs a wine smuggling business. Unfortunately the Navy start to get suspicious.
Wallis
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his depth, at least until he finds his personality changes every day during the hour the ship's clocks stop to make allowance for their westward passage.
Lord Harcourt
After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish, who as the Moonraker has already spirited away many Royalists. Dawlish travels to the Windwhistle Inn on the south coast to prepare the escape, where he meets Anne Wyndham, the fiancée of a top Roundhead colonel.
Lord Edward Whitecliffe
A cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess
Sir George Turvey
Um cracker britânico vai para a prisão, mas quando a Segunda Guerra Mundial começa, ele é recrutado pela inteligência do exército e é enviado para a Bélgica ocupada pelos nazistas para invadir o cofre de uma unidade alemã da Abwehr localizada em um castelo.
Dr. Herdal
Halvard Solness is a middle-aged architect whose ruthlessness in his business makes him a hardened individual. Affected by his ambitions are his wife and his colleagues, until a young woman shows up asking for a promised kingdom.
Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
Henry de Frece
The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
George Kilgore
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
Irate Man
Um americano viaja para o leste da África, buscando descobrir como seu irmão morreu.
The Lord Rivers
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of York, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
Lt. Col. Huxford
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven), is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe, he also face two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act on his own defence at his court martial hearing, his argument being that he is owed a lot of money from the army for his various postings that have cost him out of his own pocket. To further complicate the proceedings, Carrington alleges he told his superior, the very disliked Colonel Henniker, that he was taking the money from the safe. A mans career, his marriage, and quite a few reputations, all hang in the balance.
Gen. Sir Cuthbert Grahame-Foxe
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
Sir Arthur
A woman falls in love with a ghost on All Hallows Eve.
Walters
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
G.O.C.
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
Station Sergeant
O tímido Holland, um quase aposentado, sonha em ser rico e viver a boa vida. Fielmente, por 20 anos, ele tem trabalhado como um agente de transferência bancária para a entrega de barras de ouro. Um dia ele se torna amigo de Pendlebury, fabricante de souvenirs. Holland observa que, com o equipamento de fundição de Pendlebury, pode-se fundir o ouro em Torres Eiffel como um brinquedo de aparência inofensiva e contrabandear o ouro da Inglaterra para a França. Em seguida os dois contam uma história para conseguir a ajuda dos criminosos profissional Lackery e Shorty (Baixinho). Juntos, os quatro executam seu planos, o que os leva a inesperadas reviravoltas.
Dr. Coulson
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.
Svensen
A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they must pretend that they're still married.
Ship's Captain
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Police Sgt. Brooks
A rotina diária de dois policiais de Londres é interrompida por um assassino.
Seguimos as atividades diárias de dois Bobbies, policiais de Londres, o veterano George Dixon e o novato Andy Mitchell. Dois jovens 'Robin Hood', Tom Riley e Spud, planejam uma série de roubos usando Diana, a garota de Tom, como trabalhadora interna. Mas em seu segundo crime, um de nossos heróis policiais é baleado por Tom, desencadeando uma caçada por toda a cidade. O assassino é esperto, mas será que ele é mais esperto que todos?
The Prison Governor
A mãe de Louis Manzzini pertence à aristocrata família D'Ascoyne, até ela fugir com um cantor de ópera. A partir daí, ela e Louis são rejeitados pelos D'Ascoynes. Quando vira um adulto, Louis resolve se vingar, tornando-se o próximo Duque da família. O caminho mais fácil para ele acaba sendo assassinar o sucessor natural ao cargo.
Mr. Campbell
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
Mr. G.H. Campbell
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
Herbert Ponting F.R.P.S.
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
Henry Blane
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."
Mersel
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
Bank Manager
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Robert Paston
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Sir William Fennell
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home. Unfortunately, his father's drinking and gambling threaten the very ownership of the house. Despite her humble origins as a servant girl, Jassy must try to use her talents to climb the social ladder and save Mordelaine for the man whom she loves.
Guide
Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
Frank Fielding
The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady's prize money. There follows a series of killings until the murderer realises that he is trapped and commits suicide.
Journalist
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...
Reporter (Uncredited)
A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young reporter attempts to get a scoop on the story.
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!