Tony Britton is the top salesman of his toy manufacturer. On a selling trip to Germany, he finds some German goods and arranges for a contract for his company to manufacture them, if his boss agrees. He's also bought a nice diamond watch for wife Sylvia Sym's birthday. He tries to smuggle it past customs, but fails. When he goes before a magistrate, he's not assessed costs and penalties. He's thrown into prison for two months. When the directors of his company find out, they insist on his firing, despite his boss's protests.
It's a movie meant to preach forgiveness and that once a man has served his time, he should be forgiven. Usually these stories are about lower-class people, whom the middle-class audience will mistrust anyway, but here Britton is punished to the full extent of the law, and beyond, and so middle-class audiences are supposed to sympathize with him. I found it a bit pat and preachy. With Jack Watling.
It's a movie meant to preach forgiveness and that once a man has served his time, he should be forgiven. Usually these stories are about lower-class people, whom the middle-class audience will mistrust anyway, but here Britton is punished to the full extent of the law, and beyond, and so middle-class audiences are supposed to sympathize with him. I found it a bit pat and preachy. With Jack Watling.