It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

Three escaped convicts (Bogart, Ray, Ustinov), descend on an unsuspecting French family in order to rob them. When the gang are asked to stay for Christmas Day they become involved in the affairs of the family, whose kindness brings out the better side of the criminals. Hilarious moral tale. find out more...