Zeebrugge

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.

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

A marooned sailor and his stowaway sister-in-law are rescued by her husband.

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.

The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56).

A colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.