A widow wants to marry, but her father will only consent if he is satisfied that a scandalous story about her is untrue.

After receiving an advance inheritance, a bored London couple set off on a world cruise hoping to rejuvenate their marriage and escape their dull routine. But newfound wealth and freedom only expose deeper cracks in their relationship, as each becomes infatuated with someone else. Their journey through exotic ports and mounting disillusionment ultimately brings them face to face with the fragility—and resilience—of love.

A cowboy saves a village girl from a mad squire's torture chamber.

A wastrel returns to blackmail his wife who has told her children that he died a hero.

A major and his wife return from abroad and pose as servants to observe their adolescent children.

A sacked clerk rises to become Mayor and weds the daughter of the councillor who fired him.

The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)

A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.