Soundtrack: Walter Goehr

Direction David Lean

Cast John Mills · Valerie Hobson · Martita Hunt · Alec Guinness

Plot Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys...

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Harry Baur · Paule Andral · Jackie Monnier · Jean Bradin

Direction Gottfried Reinhardt

Cast Clark Gable · Lana Turner · Victor Mature · Louis Calhern

Plot Three screen legends, Clark Gable, Lana Turner and Victor Mature, team up for this espionage thriller set during the Second World War. In Nazi-occupied Holland, Dutch Colonel Pieter Deventer is...

Direction Edmond T. Gréville

Cast Paul Lukas · Hugh Williams · Linden Travers · Marie Ney

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Elissa Landi · Gordon Harker · Basil Sydney

Plot A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The...

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Arthur Askey · Richard Murdoch · Kathleen Harrison · Peter Murray-Hill

Plot Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead...

Direction Joseph M. Newman

Cast George Raft · Coleen Gray · Enzo Staiola · Charles Goldner

Plot American gambler Nick Cain arrives at the Mediterranean town of San Paola, and befriends an orphan Italian shoe-shine boy named Toni. He is puzzled by the reception and welcome he...

Direction Edmond T. Gréville

Cast Brigitte Horney · Neil Hamilton · Raymond Lovell · Charles Carson

Plot A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able...

Direction Paul Merzbach

Cast Lilian Harvey · Wendy Toye · Carl Esmond · Harold Warrender

Plot As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.

Direction Edmond T. Gréville

Cast Josephine Baker · Albert Préjean · Robert Arnoux · Germaine Aussey

Plot Max de Mirecourt, celebrated French novelist, takes a vacation from his social-butterfly wife in Tunisia, where he meets beautiful Alwina, a barefoot hill shepherdess. To cure his writer's block, Max...

Direction Maurice Elvey · Castleton Knight

Cast Will Fyffe · Anthony Hulme · E.V.H. Emmett · Guy Middleton

Plot A semi-dramatized compilation showing major political and cultural events of the twentieth century leading to the outbreak of World War II.