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- A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
- Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.
- Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
- A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.
- An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
- High jinks and chills ensue when a group of people become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches.
- All leave is cancelled so that a British submarine can be sent after a new German warship. They chase it so far that they have no fuel to get home.
- A re-enactment of the Battle of Arnhem during the Second World War which was later lavishly remade as A Bridge Too Far (1977).
- A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
- An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
- A mother struggles to maintain normalcy at home as D-Day nears. With lodgers, absent children in the Navy, and no war job, she questions her choice to remain a housewife when her son's ship is damaged.
- A young woman called into service at a factory during World War II falls in love with a member of the RAF.
- Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
- Following her father's death, a teenage British heiress goes to live with her guardian uncle--who is broke and schemes to murder her for her inheritance.
- Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
- A drama set during World War II. A tale of adultery and desertion.
- A young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a Policeman. She runs away with two G. I.s who are also on the run and they start a crime wave.
- A poor widow with two daughters augments her income by using her children to extort money. Visiting the houses of the rich people, they tell a sad story and beg for help. Then she meets a wealthy man who proposes marriage to her.
- During WW2, a Royal Navy Commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of Nazi spies and Fifth-Columnists.
- Jaap van Leyden (Sir Ralph Richardson) is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later, a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Germans without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
- Three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion.
- Women in a French internment camp conceal downed British airmen from German soldiers, and try to help them escape. Produced by Edward Black. Written and directed by Frank Launder.
- After concert pianist Lissa Campbell learns that she has a serious heart problem. she vows to enjoy what time she has left. On taking her first holiday she meets Kit Firth, a pilot on leave whose vision has been impaired due to a bomb explosion while he was on active service. Kit is searching for a rare mineral Britian needs in the war effort. Following an explosion at the local tin mine, Kit and several others are trapped, but due to his knowledge of the mine workings, he leads the others to safety. But his greatest challenge is to come, when he has to undergo an operation, that hopefully may keep him from going blind. This operation has a slim chance of being successful. This video is available in VHS PAL format under the series named, "The Margaret Lockwood Collection".
- The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
- An anthology of four short stories centered around the topic of honestly--or dishonestly--winning the pools in postwar Britain.