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- A young woman called into service at a factory during World War II falls in love with a member of the RAF.
- A woman uses her windfall to open an illegal after-hours night club for her daughters' education, but her husband intervenes, causing conflicts and complicating matters.
- A struggling circus finds salvation in the form of an exciting new twist on their high-wire act.
- From the popular Broadway show, a musical adaptation Brandon Thomas's 1890's farce about an Oxford undergraduate posing as a classmate's aunt from Brazil--"where the nuts come from." Notable mainly for Frank Loesser's score and Ray Bolger's spectacular dance to "Once in Love with Amy."
- A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his "system" missing, a reporter sets out to find the killer--and the system.
- A convict, just out of prison, is implicated in a murder and goes on the run, hitching a ride with a truck driver.
- The ignored wife of an industrialist hatches a plot to make him pay more attention to her.
- A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
- Wartime drama of bomber crews based in England.
- After their state-of-the-art steamship the "Gigantic" sinks a few minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David (Griffith Jones) takes a business-like approach and eventually joins forces with former rivals, but decides the expensive gamble of steamships is not the way to go. Charles (Sir Michael Redgrave) embarks on a different course, sailing on a doomed ship to America to forge an alliance with Samuel Cunard (Hartley Power). Eventually, the brothers are reunited in their bid to gain the mail contract from the British government, although their relationship might not last since each is in love with Mary (Valerie Hobson), the daughter of one of their backers.
- Bookseller David Gordon's new wife Marian has never met David's friend Bob but by telephone advises him on how to meet women by following the first attractive girl he sees. Unfortunately, the girl turns out to be Marian and Bob is arrested.
- When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance ...
- On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other
- An English comedian attempts his luck on the Scottish stage, and develops a rivalry with a local performer.
- A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
- Mary, who is infatuated with her boss, discovers that he is having an affair with one of her coworkers. Despondent, she leaves work and overhearing news of a suicide, impulsively decides to drown herself in the river. She turns out to be an incompetent suicide, however, and while splashing about in the water, an apparently wealthy and dashing figure, Tony, drives up in his sports car and jumps in to save her. He takes her home to get her dry and to keep her from hurting herself--but his wealthy fiancee arrives and she assumes the worst and breaks off their engagement. Tony then reveals to Mary that he's broke, with only 300 pounds to his name. Now--each despondent--they both begin to talk of doing themselves in when tickets for Monte Carlo, which was to be his honeymoon destination, arrive. In a sudden bit of screwball inspiration, they decide to go to Monte Carlo and bet their little stake on an all or nothing bid to build a fortune for themselves. Its either win, or they both jump into the Mediterranean--a double suicide. Will fortune smile on this pair, or will it be into the drink for them?
- An undercover policeman infiltrates a notorious ring of jewel thieves headed by a man no one has ever seen.
- A news correspondent and his photographer, on assignment in a country on the edge of revolution, identifies an attractive woman on a snap shot as the companion of a notorious illegal arms dealer, who has recently been reported as having committed suicide while on the run from agents wishing to track him down.
- George Arliss plays Spike an elegant British tramp who is accidentally mistaken for a member of the Rothschild family and made a bank director.
- When banker Jonathan Steele fires a flirtatious secretary, efficient unemployed Betty Miller gets a tip to get the job. In becoming indispensable she also falls in love with him, even if he doesn't notice that she is no more a church mouse.
- Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
- Farcical comedy. Max Miller, as Herbert Cronkite, is a Smithfield meat porter who made to think that he has drowned a man and so goes on as a tramp, eventually becoming a butler in a country house in Sussex. The few opening Smithfield and waterside scenes are made with an air of some reality and the butlering scenes give Max Miller opportunities for knockabout humour and a few digs at the huntin' and ridin' crowd - not very much is made of his fear of arrest. The situations include a bedroom scenes and a farcical hunt. As a whole the film is amusing although the humour is ponderous.
- A noble child is kidnapped by a chimney sweep and saved by strolling players.
- A bankrupt publisher thinks all his troubles are over when he stumbles across a Brown Wallet containing 200 pounds. But he is implicated in the murder of his wealthy aunt ...
- A film studio is awaiting the arrival of its new owner, and the executives mistake an old actor for him. Complications ensue.
- This is a story about Mr. Cohen, a father who owns a large department store in London and cares about being a good shopkeeper and good person. Mr. Cohen's elder son and a friend's son work there and have slowly taken on more and more responsibility with the inadvertent result that Mr Cohen has begun to feel unimportant. Mr. Cohen longs to start over with a small shop to regain what he feels he has lost. One subplot involves Mr. Cohen's attempts to remain relevant by helping a small shopkeeper both before and after a major life event for the family. Another subplot involves his younger son's marriage decision and Mr. Cohen's involvement. Mr. Cohen ultimately takes a trip for distraction and looks at buying a small shop. Just in time to save the day, he realizes that he is needed at home after all.
- An accountant is forced by circumstances to take a job at the racetrack. He is working at the betting window when he is drawn into a gang of criminals and their illegal schemes.
- A maid finds herself in the middle of having to try to sort out the problems of the zany family she works for.
- The owner of a small Italian restaurant in London is left a large amount of money by a long-lost relative, on the condition that he not talk or write for a month; otherwise the money will revert to the man's female relatives, who used to drive him crazy with their constant chattering. When the women find out about this, they set out to do everything they can to make sure he violates the terms of the will so they can get the money.
- A fairground barker tries to interest a millionaire in a new substitute for petrol.
- A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election.
- A London charwoman wins a free trip to Central Europe and becomes mixed up in a revolution in the kingdom of Sylvania. She is the means of restoring the baby prince to the throne after she has defeated the revolutionists.
- A newly rich couple, under the impression that Cockney racing tout Evans is a championship-winning trainer (he isn't), ask him if he can train a racehorse they have just bought. It turns out that they don't know anything about horse racing, but think that having a championship racehorse will be their ticket into "society". Evans agrees, but since he doesn't have a stable, moves the horse into the quarters he shares with two lodgers. Surprisingly, the horse has an innate talent for racing and could well be a champion. Evans enters him in the big championship race, but the day before it is to take place, the horse is stolen.
- A beautician meets and falls in love with a young man, and they soon marry. What she doesn't know, however, is that her new husband is actually a millionaire who is suffering from amnesia--and he already has a wife.
- A news-vendor is forced into fighting a sick friend for the championship.
- Loder and Baxter become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
- Gypsy dancer Hassina falls in love with lion tamer Brazil and travels to London to find him. Brazil is supposedly working at the Crystal Palace, but he is not there when Hassina arrives. After fainting from lack of food, Hassina is taken into the home of wealthy middle-aged bachelor Alan Brooks, who falls in love with her.
- Jill Trevor vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple, who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw attention to Morple's despicable conduct come to the notice a rival newspaper, who send journalist Jim Brent to offer to write up Jill's story, hoping to be able to dig up some dirt on Morple. Jim is initially skeptical, seeing Jill as a silly attention-seeking airhead, but as he gets to know her he changes his mind and realizes that her claims have substance, so the pair join forces to discredit Morple publicly, starting to fall in love with each other at the same time.
- An unemployed dancer poses as a nurse and sets her sights on playboy composer Clinton Clay. After he is dumped by his Russian wife, the "nurse" finally gets her man.