Cast: Joan Dowling

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Bonar Colleano · Earl Cameron · Susan Shaw · Renée Asherson

Plot Two sailors, on shore leave, are caught up in a diamond smuggling racket. More complications ensue for black sailor Johnny who finds love and heartache in London docklands.

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Alastair Sim · Harry Fowler · Douglas Barr · Joan Dowling

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

Cast Stephen Murray · Richard Todd · Patricia Plunkett · Rosalyn Boulter

Plot "Cristy" Drew, an aspiring young writer, trying to broaden his experience, gets involved with "Frankie" Ketchen and her two suitors, Herb Logan and Jim Heal. One night, Jim finds "Frankie"...

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Jean Kent · Roland Young · Kathleen Harrison · Derek Farr

Plot A young British woman is getting married, and as she goes through her trousseau we see the stories behind four of the items that were bought on Bond Street in...

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Michel Dennison · Patricia Plunkett · Kathleen Harrison · Denis O'Dea

Plot Rick (Michael Denison) is a costal command pilot patrolling the English Channel for U-Boats. He sinks what he believes is a German submarine, but which later proves to be British....

Direction Victor Saville

Cast Merle Oberon · Richard Todd · Leo Genn · Stephen Murray

Plot Writer Robert Sterling is visiting a café, when suddenly a scandal becomes known. To keep the others from overreacting, Sterling tells them about something similar that he saw happen years...

Direction Sidney Cole · Charles Crichton · Basil Dearden

Cast Jack Warner · Gladys Henson · Susan Shaw · Patric Doonan

Plot 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.

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Freda Jackson · René Ray · Lois Maxwell · Laurence Harvey

Plot An unmarried nightclub singer, Vivanne Bruce, is thrown on her own when her lover, Jerry Nolan, is arrested for murder. Searching for a place to live, she eventually finds a...

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Dennis Price · Derek Farr · Patricia Plunkett · Joan Dowling

Direction Jay Lewis

Cast Hamish Menzies · Cliff Gordon · Diana Decker · Joan Dowling

Plot A story of two young men, working in a colliery, who in their leisure time become very friendly with two girls on holiday at a nearby seaside resort.

Direction Daniel Birt

Cast Ann Stephens · Frank Pettingell · Freda Jackson · Joan Dowling

Plot Two children are evacuated during World War Two into the care of an alcoholic woman.