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...

It's the rip-roaring 20s and, in search of a better life, Millie has moved from Kansas to New York, where she befriends young Dorothy and an eccentric old widow, Muzzy. As she tries to sort out her romantic life and marriage prospects little does she realise that girls are being kidnapped from the hotel, where they're staying, in order to be shipped to brothels in China! But of course all's well that ends well. find out more...