奥利弗（约翰·霍华德·戴维斯 John Howard Davies 饰）一出生就被抛弃，在孤儿院生活了九年之后，他被送到了棺材铺当学徒。无法忍受苦不堪言的生活，奥利弗从师傅的身边逃跑来到了巴黎，在那里，他结识了扒手法钦（亚利克·基尼斯 Alec Guinness 饰）。就这样，奥利弗被迫开始了自己的扒手生涯。
一次偶然中，奥利弗被警察逮捕，所幸得到了好心的老先生布莱罗（亨利·斯蒂芬森 Henr...
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 ...
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 tow...