Joan Dowling

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.

When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first wife's for the photographic portrait work he excelled at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.

A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.