Naunton Wayne

Genç Iris Henderson Balkanlar'da geçirdiği tatilinin ardından trenle ülkesine dönmektedir. Tren kötü hava nedeniyle yolda kaldığında yolcular küçük bir kasabadaki bir otele yerleşirler. Iris burada yaşlı bir kadın olan Miss Froy ile tanışır. Havanın düzelmesiyle tren yolculuğunun yeniden başlamasından bir süre sonra Iris Miss Froy'un ortadan kaybolduğunu ve onun kıyafetlerini giyen bir başka yolcunun olduğunu farkeder. Diğer yolculara bunu anlattığında müzisyen Gilbert hariç yolcuların hiçbiri Miss Froy'u hatırlamaz. Iris'e inanan Gilbert ona Froy'u bulma konusunda yardım edecektir. Alfred Hitchcock'un komedi vurgusu taşıyan nadir filmlerinden biri olan The Lady Vanishes yönetmenin İngiltere döneminin sonunda önemli bir ticari başarı yakalamasını ve Hollywood'un dikkatini çekmesini sağlamıştı..

Mimar Walter Craig, şehrin dışında bir çiftlikte verilmekte olan bir partiye davetlidir. Çiftliğe vardığında daha önce bu eve geldiği hissine kapılır. Dahası partiye katılan insanların hepsine de kendisine tanıdık gözükmektedirler fakat hiçbiri Walter’la daha önce karşılaşmamıştır. Daha sonra Walter hepsine, onlarla daha önce tanıştığını ve sürekli tekrarlanan bir rüyanın içinde olduğunu söyler. Ona göre güzel ve sakin bir biçimde başlayan bu rüya, bir noktadan sonra korkutucu bir hal almaya ve içinde çıkamadığı bir kabus haline dönüşmektedir.

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.

During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as him paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.

Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.

Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. "This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...

A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

Londra nın küçük bir bölgesinde yaşayan İtalyan asıllı insanlar kendi bağımsızlıklarını ilan etmek isterler. Bir gün devletle arası antlaşmada bir boşluk bulup Pimlico Devleti adında bağımsızlıklarını ilan ederler. Bu iki ülke arasında seyahat için bir 'Pimlico Pasaportu' ortaya çıkar.

A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is broken by a lovely young girl to whom he is forced to give shelter. He marries her and finds that his dumb wife is not so dumb.

The best of British humor is on display in this satirical cold war romp! Donald Sinden plays Lieutenant Green, a radar expert in the Royal Navy. One night, whilst under the influence of alcohol, he welds an old pram to the deck of a foreign destroyer for a joke. The next morning, British Intelligence is desperate to know what the enemy’s new weapon is. To cover his tracks, Green calls it the ‘998’. When he is posted to the destroyer to explain about radar techniques, Green soon realizes that his prank has gone too far.

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.

Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.

When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.

Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?

A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.

A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.

When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.

A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.