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Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man; they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.

A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.

Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.

An ex-serviceman plans to escape his faithless wife.

During WW2, British Major Valentine Moreland is tasked with rescuing a prized pedigree cow from the German-occupied Channel Island of Armorel.

A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.

In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.

The attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during World War II.

In World War II Burma, a Canadian bomber pilot becomes reckless after losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air raid.

Edward Machin, an Edwardian-era young rogue of lowly origin, decides he must do what he can to raise his living standards in order to see the world and shape his own destiny.

The daily routine of two London policemen is interrupted by a killer.

In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, and his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.

New registrar joins hospital with cutting-edge heart-lung machine. Clashes with colleagues. Patient dies during operation. Urgent heart surgery on young boy. Registrar must prove himself through challenging medical cases.

After a cruise ship emergency, a spoiled rich attractive female passenger and three men are marooned on a deserted island where the men compete for her favors.

A young British woman is getting married and, as she goes through her trousseau, the stories unfold behind four of the items that were bought on Bond Street in London.

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

A British lady entomologist travels to a Balkan country to look into germ warfare trials using various bugs as carriers.

Coastal pub proprietress is inveigled into a smuggling plot.

A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.

An omnibus of three Noel Coward tales: the first, "The Red Peppers" (featuring Kay Walsh, Ted Ray, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell and Bill Fraser) about a bickering vaudeville couple who form an alliance when some of their company start to needle them, and ends up in some non-amusing slapstick. The second episode is "Fumed Oak" (with Stanley Holloway, Betty Ann Davies, Mary Merrall and Dorothy Gordon) is about a squabbling, middle-class family where Holloway has to contend with a ghastly mother-in-law, a selfish wife and a whining, complaining child and, after 17 years, tells each of them off and departs their company. The third segment is "Ways and Means" (with Valerie Hobson, Nigel Patrick, Jack Warner and Jessie Royce Landis) about a pair of parasites who go from city to city as non-paying guests of wealthy acquaintances. A wealthy American widow is trying to quietly kick them out of her French Riviera home, and the couple, needing funds to get to Venice, hatch a scheme to fleece her out of her gambling winnings.

In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape.

A man is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate or turning a blind eye to the suffering it creates.