Violet Gould

As a going away gift to a small village, the local Lord and Lady promise a new cottage to the local couple with the most grandchildren. Competitive instincts and petty jealousies ensue.

Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?

En 1894, le capitaine Alfred Dreyfus est accusé de haute trahison. Cet officier aurait livré à l'Allemagne des documents stratégiques de la plus haute importance. Reconnu coupable à l'issue d'un procès expéditif, le capitaine est dégradé publiquement puis exilé sur l'île du Diable. Cependant, des preuves de la culpabilité d'un autre officier, le commandant Esterhazy, font bientôt surface. Emile Zola prend alors la plume pour appeler à la révision du procès de Dreyfus et condamner l'antisémitisme qui a conduit à ce jugement inique. Il stigmatise l'attitude de l'armée, qui a fait condamner un bouc émissaire à la place des vrais coupables. L'opinion se déchire...

In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.

Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.