Velvet (Liz Taylor) is the daughter of the Brown family, who live in an idyllic English countryside. One day Mi Taylor (Mikey Rooney), a young wanderer and opportunist, whose father had given him "all the roads in the Kingdom" to travel, arrives at the Brown family estate. When Velvet wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse for the Grand National - England's greatest racing event, but who will ride this horse? 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...