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...

Tense thriller set in wartime London. Sammy is a man in a mess; he's lost a foot, has woman trouble and is hitting the bottle rather too hard, but his work as a bomb disposal ace throws him a new challenge and lust for life in the shape of a German super-bomb. find out more...