The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
A French PR man (Terence de Marney) and his girlfriend (Phyllis Dixey) steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists (Herbert Lom), prompting murder.
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged with assault at the Assizes. ' (British Film Institute)
Duas famílias que sentem um ódio profundo um pelo outro, não perdem oportunidade para começar uma briga entre eles. No meio dessa briga encontra-se uma jovem casada com um passado turbulento. Quando o outro lado descobre começam uma grande luta de poderes e somente quando a jovem tenta suicidar-se começam a se dar conta que foram longe demais com isso. A obra é uma crítica a hipocrisia da alta sociedade inglesa que visavam apenas seus interesses e disputas de poder.
