A poor aristocrat hires a dwarf to drown his secret wife so he may marry an heiress.

'France, 1918. Armistice saves girl and pilot from death, but not Canadian agent.' (British Film Catalogue)

The film is set in the fictional mill town of Hindle in Lancashire in England, and concerns two young persons, Fanny Hawthorn and Alan Jeffcote, who are discovered to have been having what would now be called a "dirty weekend" during their holiday, during the town's wakes week.

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

A Rajah dies saving a captain's wife when the plan to poison her husband goes wrong.

A scientist brings a divinity student back to life, but revived lacks his soul.

An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.

The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.

A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.

A girl is accused when her father kills a blackmailer to save his son.