President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

该片讲述的是福尔摩斯和他的好朋友华生医生帮助一位王子夺回他应得的王位并护送他回国。而在回国途中的船上又出现了三个不速之客……

London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing wife is also French, and she finds that her brother has been arrested by the Republic to try and get her to find out who "that damned elusive Pimpernel" really is.

1944 film by Roy William Neill

丽丽·摩法特（贝蒂戴维斯饰）是一个女教师，她生活在一个威尔士一个以采矿业为主的小镇上，因为当地人的观念十分陈腐，在教育方面非常落后。丽丽·摩法特不忍看到当地的孩子一代一代这样下去，觉得十分烦恼，她决心要改变这种现状。于是，她建立了一所学校，试图为村民们进行基本的读写教育。但是，当地的头头和他的女儿不愿意看到村民再有了知识之后，反抗对他们的压榨，不再遵循他们制定的规矩，处处阻挠丽丽·摩法特的计划。当地的乡绅也为了自己的利益，不愿意出租房子给丽丽·摩法特作为学校的场地。因此，摩法特决心是用自己的屋子，成立墨法特学校。她的学生之一摩根·伊凡（约翰道尔饰），从一个欺凌弱小者变成了一个非常有才华的人物。

A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.