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- Simon (the Saint) Templar's an adventurer, and friend to those in need. Where his money comes from isn't mentioned, but, he travels europe in his white Volvo P1800S righting wrongs.
- A RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.
- A young thief takes up long-distance running when he is sent to a borstal.
- Michael Strait is a high-flying photo-journalist and a real Man of the World. His business takes him to every corner of the world and every corner of society and with his eye for trouble it proves to be an irresistible combination.
- Swinging coffee bars, cigarettes, jazz, youthful delinquency and a copper gets killed. Did Adam Faith pull the trigger? Can Anne Baxter prove his innocence in time?
- Ernest Hemingway's famous story of the Spanish Civil War concerns an attempt by partisans to blow up a bridge.
- The wife of a country doctor has an extra-marital affair which leads her to ruin and death.
- The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams.
- When Mike tries to get an interview with a tempestuous Italian film star he finds she has been kidnapped by a Sicilian bandit with an odd sense of humour.
- While on holiday in a Greek village, Simon must settle accounts with a crook who is threatening the peace of local inhabitants.
- Emma is tempted away from her marriage by the dashing Rodolphe.
- Emma finds her life ruined.
- Initially, Emma is able to continue a double life of extreme contrasts stolen time spent with her lover, Rodolphe, writing to him or dreaming about him is the counterpoint to domesticity. Charles' love for Emma makes him oblivious to her faults and his pride obliges him to indulge her naïveté in purchasing clothes and trappings that are beyond their means. The Draper, M. Lheureux, supplier of these luxuries, increases his profits by luring customers into his web of usury. As Emma's spending expands into expensive presents for her lover, the debts to Lheureux mount. M. Homais, the local pharmacist, suggests to Emma that an opportunity for fame and fortune in the medical field awaits her husband, were he to be persuaded to pioneer an operation on the club-foot of the local ostler.
- For Emma Bovary, life has always been a romantic dream. As the new Madame Bovary, however, she is soon to learn that marriage is a demanding reality.