Robert Moreton

Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner. When he is released and arrives at her home, she panics and locks him in the attic until a job can be found for him, preferably abroad!

An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."

C'est l'histoire d'un bâtiment de guerre, le destroyer britannique HMS Torrin, depuis sa mise en chantier avant la déclaration de guerre conjointe de la Grande-Bretagne et de la France à l'Allemagne, jusqu'à sa destruction à la suite des attaques aériennes allemandes. Les survivants, accrochés à un bateau pneumatique de sauvetage, se souviennent de leur vie passée.

A lawyer's plan to break up his daughter's budding romance backfires when the boyfriend's father becomes involved.