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- A murder is found to be connected to a false heir and a secret underground torture chamber.
- The crafty and experienced waiter Albert keeps things running smoothly at the Jolly Fiddler Hotel, and he is the only one who can placate the crabby justice of the peace who is a permanent resident there. But Mr. Finch, a representative from the chain that owns the hotel, thinks that Albert is too old and should be fired. When Finch visits the hotel, his ideas and his manner quickly antagonize the staff and guests, setting off a lengthy battle of wills.
- Mixture of re-enactments and documentary footage relates the story of the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his Nazis in Germany and the danger they pose to Europe and the rest of the world.
- A down-and-out writer being hounded by collectors stumbles upon dead man lying under a fallen tree limb. Little did he know the man had been murdered, and he concocts a scheme of exchanging clothes and identifications in hopes of making a clean slate of things. Coincidental happenings lead the police to his new alias. A secret diary and a murder weapon hold the truth to his innocence while Scotland Yard is now the hound on his trail. The true killers are eventually exposed to him and his sweetheart. Then the truth is exposed. A somewhat frustrating story as the viewer watches errors in judgement from all angles. But a good ending for all except the murderers.
- Two van drivers are involved with a confidence trickster who is trying to defraud an insurance company.
- A couple, married for seven years, face temptations when obliged to spend a night apart for the first time.
- A private investigator prevents the theft of a painting from the mansion of a friend who has recently inherited it, as well as preventing him being killed by his evil twin brother.
- 'The eighth deadly sin is to see evil where none exists ...' So young schoolboy Eddie Marshall believes. The son of an ambitious mother who believes she married beneath her, and a father considered stupid and selfish by his nagging wife, Eddie has always found peace and satisfaction in his studies. And then he meets Sue - shy, dreamy and well-to-do - a fellow pupil at his school, and the two fall deeply in love. Each day they write long, poetic letters, but when Sue's father finds and reads one of the letters he immediately jumps to the wrong conclusion.
- For a bet a man attempts to hide his friend for a month. The police soon believe he has murdered him.
- Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-work about the house, but after a lady guest persuades him that he resembles Napoleon he becomes convinced that he is a born leader and mounts a takeover bid to reverse their roles.
- Betsy, a housemaid and aspiring actress, throws a party in her employer's house while he's away. Guests include agents and producers; but her employer's priceless jade collection also becomes the target of unscrupulous thieves.
- Mary, singer in a modest Soho club, is in trouble when a luxurious Mayfair one with the same name is to be visited by her father's recording company, and he expects to find her there. She and her partner Billy will try not to deceive him.
- A Chicago gangster is pleasantly surprised by violent crime in London. When he discovers crooks are after a mysterious package, and murder an innocent match-seller for it, he turns detective.
- Recently engaged Alan Burmister, a businessman with shady dealings, is accused of murder. John Worrall, a rising barrister and competitor for Alan's fiancee's affections, is briefed for the defence but when he loses the case and Alan is condemned to penal servitude for life, no one but the judge realises that John may have deliberately bungled Alan's legal defence.
- A young man lets his flat to an engaged couple and misunderstandings ensue.