Vilma Ann Leslie

A Nottingham, la mine rythme le quotidien des habitants. La famille Morel n'a pas échappé à cette industrie qui exige, pour extraire le précieux minerai, le sacrifice des individus. Madame Morel en a hérité une certaine amertume, elle qui pensait épouser le prince charmant. Son mari, mineur, se vautre dans l'alcoolisme. Pour ce couple explosif, leurs trois garçons constituent un enjeu essentiel, d'autant que chacun possède un caractère bien singulier. L'aîné refuse catégoriquement de reprendre le flambeau paternel. Le cadet, plus docile, a accepté de devenir une «gueule noire», mais y perd bientôt la vie. Le benjamin, Paul, aimerait se consacrer à l'art...

A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.

Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tries his hand as a boxer, a bouncer and a commissionaire, and finally finds success as a singer. He also falls for the charms of night club chanteuse Julie, and this leads to further success when he wins a recording contract.

Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.

Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.

An ambitious and unscrupulous young woman joins an advertising agency.

Surnommé « le Saint » en raison de ses initiales, Simon Templar est un détective amateur au charme irrésistible qui traque les criminels à travers le monde.