Pauline Shepherd

A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.

Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.

Un gang de malfaiteurs, mené par Johnny Mellors, prépare le braquage d'un nouveau fourgon hyper sécurisé d'une firme londonienne. Leur complice infiltré, le comptable Dennis Pearson, leur annonce que leur plan est risqué voire mortel mais Johnny refuse d'abandonner son plan. Les préparatifs continuent mais le jour du passage à l’acte, le braquage prend une tournure dramatique quand Paker, le chauffeur du blindé, meurt tandis que Bert, l'un de ses hommes, est abattu par le collègue de Paker. Néanmoins, Mellors et ses deux autres hommes de main réussissent à fuir avec une forte somme d'argent...

Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac, a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy, a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.