主人公格温普兰是贵族后裔，从小落入人贩子之手，被毁容摧残，脸上始终像在怪笑。好心的江湖艺人于苏斯把他收为义子，并把格温普兰从雪地上救起的盲姑娘蒂也收养了下来。他们几个四海飘泊，靠卖艺为生。后来由于偶然的因素和英国政坛的需要，格温普兰得以重获爵位，但他拒绝了这一肮脏的恩赐，宁愿回到他的患难伙伴那里；这时蒂已身患重病。在盲姑娘离开人世后，格温普兰悲痛万分，投海自杀。

Learning his Japanese mother committed suicide after being abandoned by his American father, the young Yukio journeys to the United States to have his revenge. However, his plans are complicated when he inadvertently ends up working for a network of spies who want to get their hands on some important documents possessed by none other than Yukio's long-lost father.

1919 film by Oscar Apfel

The National Theatre is 50 in October 2013 and has given the BBC unprecedented access to make two Arena documentaries for BBC Four.
In the second film Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner talk about running the new National Theatre - the biggest job in the British theatre - from its opening by the Queen in 1976 through the strikes which nearly forced it to close in the 1970s, clashes with the government, the controversy of the play Romans in Britain, to the fulfilment of Olivier's original dream with the huge success of shows like Amadeus, Guys and Dolls, War Horse and One Man Two Guvnors.
With contributions from Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, James Corden and many others.