An upper middle-class family is ruled by the ancient and churlish matriarch. Her daughters' marriages are all in jeopardy, with affairs and communions...
A spinster schoolteacher arrives in a Welsh mining valley and discovers a boy genius in her class.
Ellen Creed struggles to hold down her job as housekeeper-companion to the retired actress Leonora Fiske whilst trying to protect her two disturbed si...
A dying old man changes his will to leave everything to the new housemaid who has caught his eye, much to the alarm of his three grown up children and...
The action takes place in a bedroom in a Portsmouth hotel, the wardroom of H.M.S. Sherwood, and the living-room at Admiralty House.
The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town...
A financier is accused of murder when his brother-in-law is found dead in his garden pond. After winning the court case he returns home to find that h...
A wealthy man lives on the Dover Road, a traditional path of elopers. His practice of forcing such couples to see one another in the sober light of ho...
A duke imprisoned for 15 years in a castle in France feigns blindness for five years to lull the suspicions of his captors in order to plan his escape...
A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.
in 19th-century Paris, a sinister hypnotist tries to turn a simple Irish girl into an opera star.
Eynon Evans plays the part of Inspector Probert George, who was tortured in a prisoner-of-war camp when his plans for escape were discovered, is dead ...
At an old, dark house, on a dark and stormy night, an ill-assorted group of people meet for the reading of a millionaire's will. But there's a madman ...
A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown days before her son's wedding.
After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
Sheridan Whiteside, famous as an author, broadcaster and expert on just about everything, is invited to dinner by a pompous small-town businessman - a...
A young lady is filled with daydreams until she meets her reality man.
Descius Heiss is a French expatriate, and former Devil's Island prisoner, with two passions; driving shrewd bargains in antiques at his Sly Corner Sho...
What is Margaret hiding from the rest of the family when they arrive for their father's funeral?
An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has been accidentally revealed to hi...
The up-and-down lives of a married couple over decades, depicted as a series of bedroom scenes.
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.