Dans une île, une jeune femme est convoitée par deux hommes, Peter, pêcheur mystérieux, et Philip, riche avocat. Il lui faudra choisir mais aussi assumer la maternité et réagir à l'hostilité des habitants de l'île.
Explorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune.
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a new house only to find he prefers spending to saving and is happy to spend his money on a few hours of happiness rather than a lifetime's conventionality.
La scène d'action embrasse Tanger, Toulon et la Méditerranée, où Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka et Kim Peacock, respectivement capitaines de bateaux français, allemands et anglais, s'unissent pour sauver les passagers d'un bateau neutre sur le point d'être englouti dans un nuage de fumée empoisonnée dégagé par un navire de contrebande.
Explorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune.