奥利弗（约翰·霍华德·戴维斯 John Howard Davies 饰）一降生就被甩掉，在孤儿院生存了九年今后，他被送到了棺材展当学徒。没法忍受苦不堪言的生存，奥利弗从师傅的身旁逃跑来到了巴黎，在那边，他结识了窃匪段钦（亚利克·基尼斯 Alec Guinness 饰）。就如许，奥利弗被迫开端了本人的窃匪生活生计。　　一次有时中，奥利弗被差人拘系，所幸获…

巴塞尔（约翰·米尔斯 John Mills 饰）是山境界兵团新录用的团长，这个严厉而又当真的汉子刚刚上任就决定好好的整整理一下军队内懒惰的恶习。在巴塞尔到来之前，步兵团的生存可谓是闲散而又舒服，克莱辛中校（亚利克·基尼斯 Alec Guinness 饰）的日子过得如鱼得水，但如今不同了，这让克莱辛感应很是的不满。固然概况上，克莱辛对巴塞尔做出的…

Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with average number of triumphs and disasters until the outbreak of WWII.

An English school teacher outposted in Africa has a run in with the local witch doctor and suffers a nervous breakdown. After recovering back in England she takes a job teaching in a small country town hoping to make a new start for herself. All goes well at first, until she starts to hear some disturbing stories about…