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- Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.
- William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony. Based on C.E. Vulliamy's biography "William Penn."
- Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.
- During a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.
- Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
- Dock worker Tom Masterick is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to show that his alleged victim is still alive.
- An ex-con, released after imprisonment for a jewel theft, swears vengeance on his former accomplices and devises an intricate plan to steal their fortune.
- Charters and Caldicott, touring in the Near East, are mistaken for German agents and handed in error a gramophone record which contains vital information for Britain's enemies.
- Bedelia, a newly remarried beautiful widow, is on honeymoon in Monte Carlo. A painter approaches her inquiring about her past. When she and her husband go back to England the artist will soon be there. Danger, crime and truth will follow.
- During the Depression in England, a young lady from Lancashire decides to be a rich bookmaker's mistress, just to help the rest of her unemployed family.
- An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect Germans in their planned germ warfare.
- Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
- A secretary suspects that her employer's three elderly sisters are plotting to kill him after he announces he'll no longer finance their philanthropic endeavors.
- Twin trapezists fall out over a lottery ticket and a worthless woman, but later extract a unique revenge.
- Ghosts are condemned to haunt a house until it is visited by a reigning monarch,
- On his father's death, an 18-year-old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realizing that the other directors want to keep him in the dark, he starts to ask questions and he soon goes undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
- The arrival in a Yorkshire fishing village of the Lunns with a modern fishing boat is deeply resented by the Fosdycks. Eventually hostilities are overcome and the families join forces to get a modern deep sea fishing boat.
- Two children are evacuated during World War Two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
- A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
- The police are investigating the suspicious death of a mine owner when they stumble upon a strange Nazi plot to invade England.
- A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
- Mr. J.G. Reeder is called in by the Bank of England to investigate a gang of forgers. Reeder enlists the aid of a younger man, Capt. Johnnie Gray, to infiltrate the gang by going undercover in Dartmoor jail.
- A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
- Famous detective and his trusty side-kick Tinker are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
- A famous musician is mistaken for a street singer.