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In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach

A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert

Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half remembered recurring dream turns into reality

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strips wording each week, unknown to writer and printer The first of the Ealing comedies

Angela Barrows, an accomplished business analyst from the US, attempts to contemporise the late MacPhersons tweed factory, shaking the very foundation of a men only company

The storyline centres on four young female factory workers who escape the monotony of their jobs by spending their evenings at the Chiswick Palais, the local dance hall, where they have various problems with their boyfriends

Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population To get away from the pressure of the fans who wont leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittin

British agents engage in hazardous duty behind German lines

Volunteers take over their local passenger train service against bus company resistance when the government announces its closure

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

A story of litigation between a birth mother and an adopted family due to a child lost during a war

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself At the Conway Aero Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the c

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti

The first secret is what we dont tell people, the second secret is what we dont tell ourselves, and the third secret is the truth The death of a psychologist is investigated by his teenage daughter and a former patient

Drama following the lives of two families living on the colourfully painted canal boats of Britain

A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them, and how they deal with it