A precocious child who has grown into a cheeky charmer, ambitious Denry Machin (Alec Guinness) relishes the challenge of surmounting social and other barriers with his amiably affectionate personality. But while his social climbing continues apace, he soon meets his match when it comes to women!
Private detective Edward Mercer (Richard Todd) is sent to Venice to find war-time Italian partisan Renzo Ucello (John Gregson) and reward him for aiding the escape of a wealth American during World War 2. On his arrival in Venice all is not what it seems and Mercer soon attracts the attention of both the Italian police, and shady underworld characters. Discovering that Ucello was apparently killed during World War 2, Mercer believes his search is at an end. However the Police take a special interest in his investigation believing that Mercer is somehow involved in a plot to assassinate a leading politican. Cold war intrigue is everywhere as the assassination plot unfolds and the identity of the sniper is a shock to the authorities!!
It is 1989 and Paris is crowded with visitors, for it is the eve of the opening of the 'Great exhibition'. Victoria (Jean Simmons) and her brother, Johnny (David Tomlinson), arrive to take part in the event. Leaving her brother at the bar, Vicky retires to her hotel room for the night. Next morning she excitedly runs to see Johnny and is bewildered to find that both her brother and his room have disappeared. Her surprise turns to concern when all the staff and guests deny ever seeing her brother. The authorities refuse to believe her story, but by chance she meets a young English artist, George (Dirk Bogarde) who knows her story to be true. Together they must try to unravel the mystery.
Unfortunately Paul and Archies partnership isn't working but they decide to try again after a crisis finding Glenbogle a Head Ranger. Molly is now angry with Andrew as he is shunning her after spending a weekend away Golly decides he must reveal his true feelings to Molly or face a lonely life by himself. Dorothy, Kilwillie and Lexie continue to fight over income for Glenbogle. Paul becomes involved with Amanda MacLeish and joins the board of the Lagganmore distillery. Lexie's father unexpectedly appears and becomes chauffeur for Dorothy, while Golly opposes the romance that is blossoming between his daughter Jess and Duncan. Lexie learns something about Amanda and feels she must tell Paul who takes it badly and tells her to stay out of his business.
Hilary Clarke (Rosamund John) is a young architect who accompanies her office boy to hospital when he is injured. After witnessing the work of the nurses, she decides to join the hospital and train as a nurse herself. Despite the long hours, Hilary is happy with her new vocation. Then Larry Faines (Stewart Granger) and his fiancee are brought in having been injured. He and Hilary become increasingly attracted to each other, but she must also care for his fiancee who gradually becomes aware of the situation.
Mark St. Neots (John Justin), a young peer and a junior member of the Foreign Office, is a man destined for a long and distinguished career in the Diplomatic Corps. Mark, however, is obsessed by a lace: that of Sylvia (Moira Shearer), a 16-year-old redheaded girl whom, in his boyhood, he vowed he would love to eternity. Although many years have passed since he made the promise and he is now a respectably married man, Mark has never forgotten the face that symbolises his ideal woman...
Before he went on to direct the entire series of the legendary Carry On films Gerald Thomas made Raising The Wind based on a script by famed film score composer Bruce Montgomery. It follows the zany hi-jinks of an outlandish group of wacky music students who decide to share an apartment together in order to cut costs. But the situation becomes less than idyllic when one of the students sells one of his compositions and risks losing out on his scholarship. Luckily one of the gang has a cunning plan... Raising The Wind is an incredibly witty and endearing college comedy populated by mad professors, deaf landladies, evil music publishers, absent-minded lecturers, battling students and manic conductors.
Strait-laced Henry Sterling's (George Cole) peaceful life is periodically shattered by his wastrel brother's antics. But when he attends a local theatre to pay his brother's bouncing cheque he stays to watch the show - and ends up being hypnotised into thinking he's a devil-may-care philanderer!
In London, jazz musician Joe Newman (Stanley Baker) receives a startling telephone call: the caller is his German father, believed to have been killed in action twenty years ago! At the same time, a funeral is taking place in a quiet Bavarian town; the coffin bears the name of Kurt Deutsch, Joe's father. When he goes to Bavaria to investigate, Joe is sure that certain facts are being withheld. But his search for the truth proves more disturbing than he could have imagined...
Newlyweds Archie and Lexie seem to have finally realised their dreams together until Archie is tempted by a position as manager in a restaurant in New York. Lexie is appalled at the idea of him even considering abandoning Glenbogle particularly as Kilwillie's scheming sister Lady Dorothy is making trouble on the estate. Paul, Archie's half-brother, reappears to a mixed reception but eventually the brothers attempt to put aside their differences and work together. Meanwhile Golly is surprised by the return of his estranged daughter Jess, Molly is avoiding Andrew's romantic overtures and Duncan takes his new job as Eco-Dome site manager very seriously.
Sailors Three (1940)
After a drunken night out, three British sailors accidentally board the wrong ship - only to discover that it is a German destroyer. The three hapless sailors attempt to capture the enemy vessel for themselves and sail it back to England.
Save a Little Sunshine (1938)
A man uses some reward money to buy himself a boarding house, but the tumbledown establishment soon provides more trouble than profit as he finds himself working day and night to keep the place running.
Spirited out of a condemned cell where he has learnt of a plot to sabotage the Suez Canal, James Terry (Frank Lawton) is able to reveal two clues to his fellow members of the Four Just Men - two vital clues pointing towards a dastardly plan to bring down the whole of the British Empire!
Heiress Susan Graham (Carol Marsh) is desperate to find a cure for her hiccups. She is both helped and hindered by her two uncles, each with a son keen to marry Susan. She encounters BBC radio star Nick Martin (David Tomlinson) and her quest leads her to a haunted house and an eccentric psychiatrist (Jimmy Edwards) who recommends laughter as the only cure for her affliction. Susan's hilarious journey leads her to the BBC radio studios where she again encounters Nick and a romance begins to blossom, however Nick's domineering mother does all she can to keep them apart. Will Susan find true love and a cure for her hiccups?
Larry Durrant (Laurence Olivier) is a playboy and one of life's losers! Having failed as a farmer in Africa he returns to England and strikes up a relationship with an attractive married model, Wanda (Vivien Leigh). All does not run smooth for the lovers as Wanda's estranged husband appears after a 3 year absence demanding money. A fight breaks out between the two men and during the ensuing scuffle Larry accidently kills the blackmailer in self-defence.
Larry immediately seeks the help of his brother Keith (Leslie Banks), an ambitious and selfish barrister on the brink of becoming a judge. Fearful that any scandal might tarnish his name Keith pleads with his younger brother not to confess to murder. The same evening, Larry meets a destitute former clergyman, John Aloysius Evan (Hay Petrie), near the scene of the murder. Evan steals the victim's wallet and is arrested and charged with murder and held for 21 days until he comes to trial.
Larry and Wanda use the three weeks to get married and enjoy their time together - but the weeks pass quickly. Evan is subsequently found guilty and sentenced to hang and Larry has to decide if he can live with the death of two men on his conscience.
David (Ian Carmichael) proposes to Janet (Janette Scott) in the middle of a cricket match, a prospect less-than-enthusiastically received by Janet's prosperous father. The thought of his daughter's marriage to a young man of unimpressive means and hazy future is accepted with dubious grace, and the two lovebirds find romance being replaced by a regiment of interfering relatives!
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