After the apparent death of her husband, King Arald, Karin takes her son Moki to live as peasants in hiding from Hagen, Arald's enemy. A mysterious knife-throwing Viking stranger, Rurik, begins acting as Karin's guardian. Eventually, of course, leading to a brutal showdown with bad man Hagen. find out more...

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...