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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.
- A convict, just out of prison, is implicated in a murder and goes on the run, hitching a ride with a truck driver.
- 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?
- A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- George Arliss plays Spike an elegant British tramp who is accidentally mistaken for a member of the Rothschild family and made a bank director.
- 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.
- The ignored wife of an industrialist hatches a plot to make him pay more attention to her.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A film studio is awaiting the arrival of its new owner, and the executives mistake an old actor for him. Complications ensue.
- Blanche is the interfering friend of a young married couple. When Peter, the husband, forgets their anniversary, to punish him Blanche persuades his wife to invent a secret lover.
- Two assistants in a department store find themselves locked in the store for the night. They discover that they have company when they realize that several burglars have broken into the store.
- 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.
- When a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.
- Two porters come into some money and decide to open a nightclub. What they don't realize is that the money they came into belongs to a gang of counterfeiters who have mistaken them for fellow gang members and given them custody of the money. When the counterfeiters realize their mistake they go after the pair to get their "money" back.
- A noble child is kidnapped by a chimney sweep and saved by strolling players.
- On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Curley Blake is a lift operator in a block of flats. He is in love with Emily, the cleaning girl. When Emily returns from a stay in hospital, Curley arranges to treat her to dinner in one of the flats. Unfortunately, the owner returns early.
- In order to keep fortune-hunters away from her, a wealthy heiress comes up with an imaginary "fiance".
- In order to win back their former boyfriends, two widows stage a phony burglary.
- An undercover policeman infiltrates a notorious ring of jewel thieves headed by a man no one has ever seen.
- A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
- An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
- 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 disgraced doctor has a chance to redeem himself when a diphtheria epidemic ravages the community, and one of its victims is his son.
- "Too Dangerous to Live" is a 1939 British crime film directed by Anthony Hankey and Leslie Norman and starring Sebastian Shaw, Anna Konstam and Reginald Tate. It was based on the novel Crime Unlimited by David Hume. A private detective goes undercover by joining a gang of burglars.
- An English comedian attempts his luck on the Scottish stage, and develops a rivalry with a local performer.
- On her honeymoon, a wife learns about her husband's shadowy past.