Screenplay: Roger MacDougall

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Alec Guinness · Joan Greenwood · Cecil Parker · Patric Doonan

Plot The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material,...

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Peter Sellers · Jean Seberg · David Kossoff · William Hartnell

Plot The economy of the teeny-tiny European duchy of Grand Fenwick is threatened when an American manufacturer comes up with an imitation of Fenwick's sole export, its fabled wine. Crafty prime...

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Jimmy O'Dea · Betty Driver · Sonnie Hale · Patrick Barr

Direction John Paddy Carstairs

Cast George Formby · Dorothy Hyson · George Merritt · John Warwick

Plot A brave wartime copper (policeman) becomes a hero when he thwarts a plot to destroy a battleship. But then the rest of the police get the idea that he is...

Direction David MacDonald

Cast Barry K. Barnes · Valerie Hobson · Alastair Sim · Edward Lewy

Plot A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast John Mills · Dirk Bogarde · Robert Beatty · Elizabeth Sellars

Plot IRA member Terry modifies his violent views after working undercover in wartime London. When his co-conspirators are arrested, he ensures that his brother Matt escapes back to Ireland. Terry follows...

Direction David MacDonald

Cast Barry K. Barnes · Valerie Hobson · Alastair Sim · John Warwick

Plot A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.

Direction George Pearson

Cast James Carew · Charles Oliver · Lucille Lisle · Kim Peacock

Plot Explorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune.

Direction David MacDonald

Cast Alastair Sim · Diana Churchill · Barry K. Barnes · Edward Chapman

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Tommy Trinder · James Mason · Philip Friend · Mervyn Johns

Plot Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz...

Direction Philip Leacock

Cast John Mills · Yvonne Mitchell · Alastair Sim · Jeremy Spenser

Plot It concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his "causes" he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster...

Direction Muriel Box

Cast Shelley Winters · John Gregson · Peggy Cummins · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Plot Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies...

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Nova Pilbeam · Edmund Gwenn · Jimmy O'Dea · Graham Moffatt

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast James Mason · George Sanders · Vera Miles · Oliver Johnston

Plot Philandering Commander Max Easton, now desk-bound and under-worked in the Admiralty, finds he suddenly needs to make some money when he falls for American Virginia Killain. When he hatches a...

Direction Richard Taylor

Plot A pageant, in animation, of England's social life from mediaeval times with emphasis on the part of the blacksmith, and his role today.